The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Take Series vs. A's, NBA Finals Game 3 Tonight, Sorsby Goes Scott-Free?

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

Astros Take Series vs. A's, NBA Finals Game 3 Tonight, Sorsby Goes Scott-Free?

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Playable for the shortstop Williams, backroom of the infield dirt, making the catch, and that is the ball game. Astros miss out on a chance to sweep as the A's salvage the finale.

Athletics win, 5 to nothing. Astros go 4 and 5 on their 9-game homestand against Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and the 8. I almost had a gut feeling when it, yet for yesterday. Damn it. Oh, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan. We had it.

We had a four and two. I was counting it. Going for the sweep. Almost there. Yeah, not really. Five nothing is that almost. Look who's back. It's our buddy.

Hey. What I miss? I got, we've had the shows. I want Jonathan's actual honest appraisal. How are the shows last week? Jonathan, everything okay? You know, Matt started off rough that first start of the week. He was missing you a real bad.

He was crying. Then he got his groove. He hit his stride. Okay. I got you. It took him until Wednesday. Wednesday? Wednesday.

Hey, Shet your bum ass on me. You better say you're sorry. I'm stocked and ready off vacation for some shut your bum asses up. And ain't nobody at times for that. I bet. Yeah, it was good. We had a busy week. First, we always miss when you're there.

It's always a better one to have you here. We had some great folks coming. Gordy came in for a little bit. Oh, really? We had Ryan Hollins come in just for a little bit. Awesome. Technically, she's been a time of here there. Hold on. I'm curious now.

Phones, computers, all the above? He could not. Oh, he had technical issues. Oh, okay. I got you. Feels like user error. It was, but I still love it. 100% of user error. That's great to be back.

And then we had, I did three Astros on deck and 10th inning shows. Oh, you noticed this, but you and I do the ones during the week. I think that is correct. Like this week, I got tonight and tomorrow. You have Wednesday. And Friday. And Friday. So every weekday one is us, dude.

They're all Thursday. Yeah. You and I. Yeah. You and I. Yeah. Just you and die. I mean, we are the backbone of 790.

Pretty much. It just is what it is, Matt. Pretty much. Pretty much. All right. So that was good. A lot of things to talk about. Probably, John,

would you say the number one thing we argued about with our audience? And I don't think it was an argument. It was more a vocal minority was who you're rooting for. Not who's going to win the finals, but who you're rooting for. And I said under no circumstance,

does a Houston rocket fan, which is I, a Houston sportscaster, which is I, and the boys of the Rockets would ever root for San Antonio to win an NBA finals? Hell no. It's hard rooting for New York. I mean, I'm going to lie to you. I had, so I was in California for the week, and sports comes up, and there are a couple of people, oh, you're from Texas. So you're rooting for the Spurs?

Hell no. That's my bulls are right there. Get the hell out of here, man. Come on. Of course not. That's a rival. Yeah. You can't have them getting six when the Rockets only have.

have two? I said to the I said some people I said, do you root for the Cowboys when the 10th? Yeah, exactly. Would you root for the Rangers? Oh, hell no. That's what the guy said that I was talking. He was like, oh, okay, that just had be like me rooting for the Giants as a Dodgers. He was a Dodgers fan. Yeah, I'm sorry. No. I mean, I'm getting, I'm not running around town in Nick's gear. I can tell you that for damn sure. Now, I would like an entertaining finals. A little Spurs bounce back. Be nice for the drama. As I said, I predicted the Spurs. Originally

when the series started, I had the Spurs won in the series in five, which would be wrong. but I was rooting for the next. Okay. You can have two different opinions on such things. It's a win-win or a lose-lose. I don't know. Depending on how you want to look at it. It's a lose-lose.

I am not enjoying this whatsoever. Ben Stiller's enjoying it. He's happy. The ghost of James Kahn is happy. Is he still there? Is he still alive? James Kahn, I believe, died. He was at the finals in 99.

That's why I brought it up. Sorry. By the way, did you know that John Lithgow is still alive? Yes. He won a Tony last night. He's, yeah, he's been in some TV shows recently, too. He went 50, 50 years between winning Tonys. That's a record, I imagine.

I would presume so. I'm not a Tony historian. I feel like maybe Liza Minnelly went 60 years. That's true. Who knows? All right, so real quick, you just heard the highlights or the low lights of the 5-0 game. Boy, Mike Burroughs. My God, Mike, did we all collectively swing and miss on Mike Burroughs?

I got to figure this out. So Mike Burroughs hasn't figured out. I've been out of town for a week. I mean, I checked up a little bit. Yeah. So Mike Burroughs, not the number two guy, unfortunately, three guy. No. No.

Keep going. Keep going. Number five. No. Well. Springs. He's a six and a six-man rotation. Tatsu Yemi's been doing okay.

Okay. It was not great his last time out, but I would say since you left, he's been better. Spencer Ergetti still holding it together? Not his last start, but generally speaking, okay. Hunter Brown mowing him down in his rehab. Got one more. Okay. And, you know what?

Let me tell why we love Hunter Brown. Why? So when you are in a minor league situation, you do not want to go very far. Like, the Astros are lucky that their AAA is in Sugarland down the street, and their AA is in Corpus Christi. Some guys have to go a couple hours. Some guys have to go an hour. You know, like if you, Round Rock or maybe Oklahoma City or New Orleans, Hunter Brown

pitched for the space cowboys last week. Yes. In El Paso. That's great. He went commercially. An athlete went on a commercial flight to El Paso, Texas. Do you think he went to go check out Ciad Juarez? I don't know what that is.

Go get some tacos. It's like in the other side of the border right in El Paso. But it's kind of scary over there, right? Eh, you know, depends. Okay. Depends on who you know. He could have been kidnapped. I mean, it's a non-zero chance.

Most guys try to figure out Corporates Christie or Sugar Land. To fought El Paso to fame, good for him. What happened to one time, Justin Verlander? We didn't even like in Fayetteville. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Yeah. Woodpeckers? No, he would double A.

It was the North and West, Arkansas, whatever the hell they called themselves. Good for him. Of course, he flew charter. I'm sure, I think his brother was probably on there, too. He's been gravy training, but that's different issue, different time. All right. The Fayetteville Wooden Teeth, I believe. I believe that's correct.

On the show today, Astros Recap, the NBA Finals. Love it. To Tell the Truth, which I've already got locked and loaded. I did so, my weekend was so bizarre. Why? Because I didn't do anything. That's great. Another week, I'm happy to hear this.

I'm trying to get you relaxed for 15 years. I know. It's working. Good. That's just the second weekend in the last six that I've done nothing. I'm happy. I'm excited. All right.

So I did to tell the truth ahead of time. I finished off campus. Wow. Okay. That prime video series. Okay. How was it? Spectacular.

Okay. Really, really good. I watched J-Lo's new movie. Made Manhattan 4? No. It's called Office Romance, and I'll be giving you a full review on that. Okay.

I thought you're not supposed to bleep where you eat. And they made a movie about it? Correct. Okay. So you'll be getting the review on that. You'll also be getting, I also, I didn't realize that IG and Twitter has spam accounts. Mm-hmm.

I responded to people's DMs from three to four years ago. Spam ones? Yes. Oh, really? It's usually some girl who wants you to check out her only fans. Correct. I got rid of those. Okay.

But they were like, I would probably say I returned. Not everybody's. Okay. Because some of them either inactive accounts. People, by the way, are deactivating Twitter all the time, which is fine. You know, you know why? Because it's toxic. Yeah, it is.

I still like it because we're going to, we get some breaking news coming up in 10 minutes that is literally, I just found off a Twitter. So it does have its value. But I did spend all the time returning. And these probably these people that are going to their Twitter accounts going, Matt, I sent this to you in 2003. So I didn't mean to be rude. but I was like, so I returned these people's Twitter in these tweets. Uh-huh.

That's great. So, and people are like, what is this? This is three years old. Hey, Matt, nice to hear from you. Yeah, I like talking to people, especially on Instagram. People are nicer. Yeah. So I did, I did a lot of DM returning.

Good. And again, I cooked. Wow. What did you cook? Nothing crazy. Oh, spaghetti. Little Prego. I did, I did, I did, I did fancy BLTs.

Oh, okay. Elisa, best better than a bowl of cereal. That's true. Cook some cinnamon toast crunch. Watch the Astros. kick ass on Saturday, did nothing yesterday. Uh-huh. What else? Yeah, well, the Astros didn't kick ass yesterday.

I'm sure you're fully invested. You're going to give us a full recap on the Longhorn Softball Championship and the Longhorn's 39th bid into the College World Series. By the way, did you know-horns? If you noticed that, speaking of Twitter, there's a lot of slander on Dishfalk Field. Why? Because of the turf? Yeah. They have, now they're fine. I think they're finally getting rid of the turf in DKR. You're Texas. Put some grass out. there. I would agree. Let's go.

You have more money than God. I totally agree. 100%. I am on y'all side. Because I can be unbiased. I've only been to Bluebell Park a couple of times. Ristine grass. And I would think it on dishfall could be the same thing. You got plenty of people that can handle that. Get some grass. Let's go. Yeah. It's not... It's not only

turf, but it looks like it's 35-year-old turf. Maybe the watering laws are restrictive in Austin. But y'all are good. You all are real good. Yeah. You all good and everything. Not everything. Hmm. I don't know. football goes to playoffs.

Yes. Basketball goes to tournament you in Sweet 16. Yes. Your volleyball team is usually top 15 ranked. Cross country and tennis usually are playing

for national championships. Your softball team beat Texas Tech twice getting the oldest in my house early upset. And you're going to the college world series again. I mean, damn.

It's not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. It's always Texas or Stanford. Stanford's like the goat. But Stanford always wins because of swimming crap like that. You forgot swimming too.

You're always swimming and diving dynasty. Crazy. Yeah. How's Texas track and field? In AUH, I can tell you that. The distance is better than the sprints. Okay. Okay.

Well, of course we all do that. Yeah, we're going for distance. Going for speed. The great part is if you can do it for speed and distance, it's really good. It's tough. Take stamina, Matt. If you get older, you're just worried about getting on the track. Getting to the finish line.

Anyways. All right. I'm sorry, Jonathan. This was all week with him. Matt started it. I know. Okay, good. Wait a minute.

I don't want to be like this. You know what? Let me preemptively turn off Lauren Shihadi. No, we'll keep it on. What else is going to say? What else are you going to put on? And by the way, did you see... The memorial tournament? Speaking of the networks. Go ahead. What happened?

Pat McAfee is doing an NBA final's alternate fee. He is? Guess what I'm not watching tonight. Is he wearing his tank top? Him and his bros are going to be called, and with Kendrick Perkins calling the game. Is Aaron Rogers on there? Look. Talking about frozen envelopes, a conspiracy theory?

I understand Pat McAfee has tremendous entertainment value, but don't you think oversaturation becomes a problem? Well, here's what happens, too. You're paying the dude $80 million. You've got to use them. Is that what it is? Yeah. I think he's going to be on the sidelines at the College World Series. No wonder I work so much here because I'm getting paid as much.

Exactly. 713-212-5-790. A little bit of breaking news from the college football world. Okay. I didn't play the sounder because it's not that big, but it's big to a certain fan base in a state. 1014 on Sports Talk 790. We have breaking news

on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Definitely a second one. Ross E3 or no? You know what? I think for long-term college athletics? Hit it one more time. Okay, sure why not?

Lubbock County Judge Ken Curry. Apparently he has Texas Tech underwear underneath his robe. signs everything with a guns up using only his index finger and his thumb. Brendan Sorsby has been granted a temporary injunction against the NCAA, and he will be able to play football for the Red Raiders in 2006. Wow.

Let me ask you, before we go any further on this, does the NCAA ever win in a court case? If you're the lawyers for the NCAA, everything you go to, whether you're right or wrong, you lose. They're like a club fighter that fights prospects. They're about one and 35. I'll give you another one. They're like jobbers in pro wrestling.

If you know what I mean, you know what I mean. Yeah, same thing. If you know, you know. Or how about this? In the first three weeks of the season, they're like Arkansas Little Rock. Or SFA. All right. So today, just taking checks and taking L's.

Oh, man. I'm sorry, Jonathan. First shot at SFA, not by me. District Judge Ken Curry guns up. Restore Sorosby's eligibility saying that the NCAA cannot prevent him from, quote, practicing, playing or otherwise participating on Texas Tech football team for the 2020s season. Now, here comes the best part. The ruling says that Sorosby demonstrated that he will suffer, he will suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable. injury if this court does not issue this temporary injunction because he will be unable to

participate as a member of Texas Tech's football team. Okay. That's lawyer speak. I mean, well, judge speak, actually. Judge speak, yeah. Look, I think the NCAA is flawed on numerous levels. But I don't know if you saw it. I don't know if you were with us or not.

But last week, there was more stuff that came out about the levels of gambling. It wasn't just $20 on cricket. Yeah. It was thousands of dollars that were being spent on college football to buddies that were spent. I mean, it was a big glob of stuff. I didn't hear that. It was an epic like 10-20. It wasn't point-shadving, but it was lots and lots and lots of gambling.

I knew he was doing like Turkish softball and stuff like that. It got beyond that. Yeah, Sri Lankan cricket or whatever he was betting on. But I didn't know it was thousands of dollars of friends. Thousands of bets during his career at Indiana, Cincinnati, and at Texas Tech, according to legal document. That's what came out this past week. So the judge has all that power.

I can just listen. Well, it says temporary injunction. So how temporary is this? That's the thing I need a lawyer to help me on that. Because can temporary mean a few months or a few years? Well, he's only got one more year left. Yeah, so I'm saying like temporary and legal speak, like, yeah, we got your trial coming right up in 2020.

This is a, and that's why I put a third saturn in. This is to me, I mean, if you ever gamble on sports, as long as you say you're sorry, you're getting treatment, you're going to be able to play again. The president is set. This is interesting. And I mean, I don't know what the, as we said,

we need to find a lawyer like how long can this temporary injunction hold? What recourse does the NCAA have? Because they put out a statement, of course, they strongly disagree with the court's ruling. I don't know. This seems like a whole mess. And you got a lot of college football people fired up. Chris Cordy.

That feels like... Cameron Thomas. This is just completely unfair or... I'm sure Cameron Thomas is on board this. He just texting me Justice. That is so weak. Justice is served. So the latest stuff that you, I don't think you were part of,

while Indiana, Bets, but 2,900 bets were placed between, totally more than $30,000. Wow. There was a, quote, parlay bets involving Indiana basketball games that included wages in favor of players on the opposing team. So he wasn't even betting for his own school.

Yeah, that's pretty bad. I mean, look, I want him to get the help he needs, which obviously he's trying to get, and I obviously want him to curb it, because gambling is as addictive as drugs and alcohol. There's no question about that. And I'm not trying to make a lie of this. But you do have to.

have to sometimes pay a penalty for your actions. For something that's clearly communicated. Yeah, I'm curious the... So it sounds like Texas Tech... Before this injunction said, we want us to spend him for two games. Abilene Christian and whatever is before that. It doesn't really matter. The first game, if indeed Texas Tech suspends him for two games, I don't know what they're going to do now. I mean, this is crazy.

But if they're going to suspend him for two, the first game he would play would be on a Friday night, National Television against the University of the Lovic. Well, I mean, at least you'll benefit from him being a little rusty. Yes. I got the Cougars on the money line, just in case. Just in case he wants to throw the game. So what happens? And Brendan Sorgeby throws four picks in the first quarter.

So let me, so I want to read again what the ruling said. Sorgeby demonstrated that he will suffer a probable, okay. A repable final. financial harm, I'm sure, is what they mean. I think they're, because a lot of this is based on... But the problem is that is, and again, I don't know these things, but he can go to the supplemental draft. They're not, by being not allowed to compete in college football, doesn't mean you're not eligible

to play in the NFL. Yeah, the lawyer is, I are saying that these rules aren't official enough to prevent them from making money, I guess is what's happened. But he can't even go to the NFL draft. Submental draft coming up. I guess he wouldn't make as much money. That could be true. I know, man.

I'm not, don't tell you. Don't talk to me. I'm not the lawyer. I don't know. I'm just telling you what irreparable financial harm because they're doing a lot of that with these NCAA cases. That's why they're pushing for six, seven years of eligibility because of the income that these guys and the earning potential that they have for a lot of them is short-lived. So, I mean, I get it. But how are these rules not enforceable? Because he did gamble. And a lot on the sports and in the sports of which he, I mean, it wasn't.

even like he was gambling on the NBA or in the NHL. He was gambling on college athletics. I feel like this is not the end of this story. It feels like this is... Right. This is like in two months. I mean, I know.

But I mean, yeah, but a month ago, he was out for the year or he was out forever. So now a month later, he's got a temporary injunction. How long, what does the word temporary mean? In legal terms. I think, and again, we need a lawyer. I think temporary means this is it. this is he's freeing clear.

I don't think this is one of those things that he unless, I mean, does NCAA go back to the legal and say, what are you guys doing? I mean, who, lordy, lordy, lordy. A specific, a specific expiration date. It lasts until the underlying lawsuit is resolved. Does not have a universal time limit.

Are they going to stress it out after the season? It's a goal matter. Yeah. The lawsuits versus the NCAA. It's not against, it's in Sorosby versus NCAA. It's not sources of future life. A temporary restraining

orders 14 days, but this is not that. Here's what the NCAA says. The NCAA strongly disagrees with the court's ruling in Sorsby's case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching, and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome, which undermines and corrupts the integrity of sports. The

NCAA is committed to supporting student athletes mental health, but must continue to aggressively defend against actions that defraud college athletics and threaten competitive integrity, such as betting on one's own sport. Look, as I said, the NCAA is as flawed as it gets. But they ain't wrong here. I could even argue betting on everything but NCAA is okay.

Yeah. Apparently the attorneys of Sorsby have asked the NCAA to treat his violations as a mental health condition. He has an addiction. That's very legalese to me. I know. That's high price lawyers. Yeah, but you can't say, hey, well, hey, so officer, I'm sorry, I'm over the legal limit. I have a, I have an alcohol addiction. That doesn't play. So why does this play? I don't know. More on this as the afternoon progresses. Astros fall to tell the truth at 1130. We have the news at noon. Missing you coming up at 1.30. By the way, we have an epic missing you at 1.30. Really?

Okay. Did you watch? There was nothing on TV. Last night. Cubs versus the San Francisco Giants? I did not. Alex Brugman went 0 for 5 yesterday. Hmm. He leads baseball in men left on base.

But I thought he was going to hit great forever because the Astros hitting coaches were holding them back. He basically, after the game last night, said, I have sucked as a cub. Oh, okay. Well, he has. Missing yet 130. Man, oh man, I'm still stunned by Sorge. Beamingle. Just, and how did, I mean, my homeboy got it lucky. He went to love it to get this thing taken care of. Got some good lawyer. Cody Campbell's got some good lawyers.

At Cody Campbell, legal team's looking good. If you check Cody's Twitter, he's had to respond. Probably. All right, so help me out here. Our buddy, Ross, or Cole, says three years ago, Hunter Decker's, is that a former University of Texas player? I don't think so. No, I don't think so.

Because this comes off of the Horn Sports Twitter account. I don't think so. Hunter Decker's, he's a Houston gambler. Okay, but nobody knows what that is, but that's fine. Houston Gambler's Legend, baby? Where do you go to college? Iowa State. Okay, so they're just...

Three years ago, Hunter Decker's was ruled ineligible for placing $2,799 in bets. He never played Division I football again. Brendan Sorosby places $90,000 worth of bets at three different schools and gets to play college football this year. Get some better lawyers. Come on, Hunter. Let's go. So here is the thing that really bothers me. And we're not going to spend all day on this, but I'm just going to tell you the number one.

Mental illness is a serious thing, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not giving any information you don't know. Yes. They use mental illness as a get-out-of-jail card. For gambling, yeah. And there might be some mental illness. This is so hard for me to do. No, no, it's like I could see an analogy I made last segment.

If you're an alcoholic, that's a mental illness. It can be a – alcoholism is a disease, but that doesn't mean you can get drunk and get behind the wheel. You still have to follow the rules. Yeah, we're following the path, Matt. Okay, I'm just, what I'm saying, what I'm worried about, Jonathan is, anytime anybody gets caught gambling again, and by the way, there will be some other bros that will get caught gambling. Yeah.

They're going to go to the mental illness card, and they're going to win. Well, he's betting on Turkish soccer and stuff like that. This dude does have it. He's got a disease. But he's betting on, but he's got football on the brain, too. He's like betting on Serbian handball, Matt. He's got a problem, okay? I don't know.

I just, I am, um, this is. It can cheapen people. I mean, Who actually have a... It's cheapening mental illness. It's like, honest, I'll tell you this about racism. There is racism in our society today. But there are sometimes that people go to the race card way too fast that makes me mad because there is serious racism that should be discussed.

And that's what bothers me when everybody goes to a race card, whether it's black, Hispanic, white. When there's racism, we need to address it. But when everybody goes to it immediately, it dissipates it. It makes it less valuable when you really need to address it. The boy who called Wolf's the type of thing. Yeah. Sorby sees a wolf, Sorsby. He's got problems.

Let me tell you, Spray and Sarsby, I hope you go nine for 31 against the Cougars. I will boo you. How mad are you going to be if he goes to like 3.50 and four touchdowns? Oh, my God. Don't get me started. Yeah. And he starts doing like the money celebration.

So let me ask you this. So if Cody Campbell suggests, this is the big alum for those I don't know. We can't keep saying that. If Cody Campbell suggested a two-game suspension, that was before this ruling that made him ineligible. Does he go, wait a minute, if the courts say you're free to play, we'll afford a senior week one.

I've got to do something. Do you? Yeah, Abilene Christian in Oregon State, they can handle it. What if you take his NIL money away? They're not going to do that. I don't think so. I don't know. That's probably a violation.

He's signed a contract. I wonder how that would. I don't know what the contract language would be. Perhaps there's something in there. if you violate NCAA rules, we can modify this or whatever. They want to keep giving him his money. They want him happy. It doesn't matter. He already signed the NCAA contract for the

non-gambling and look how it don't matter. You also want players to keep coming to Lubbock. Hey, no matter what you do, we're going to take care of you. Cody Campbell's got your back. And his legal team. I wonder if, and again, I wonder if this was heard in front of a judge and say, I don't know,

Denver. Would that have made a different? I mean, what? Why is this crazy stuff happening in the county? just going on? Is the NCAA? Yeah. What are what are there, I don't know, options to appeal this? Is what I don't know. Does this go higher? Does this go to the Supreme Court? I mean, I don't know.

We need a legal, legal mind. I mean, as the Supreme Court's kind of busy as it is. I try to find the, I follow like some sports law people. We've just figured out in the first 38 minutes of the show we don't have a single lawyer listen to the show. Yeah, it's okay. They're busy right now. So Jonathan, if you and I are in trouble,

we can't use a listener. I'm just, I'm really surprised that this happened. I can't. Because I'm still on the, like, dude, you get ran through so many times. And as a track athlete, they tell you you can't do it. As a track athlete, we're not making money. Yeah. And it's crazy to me that this is still, there's loopholes for him to get through it.

Get the help he wants, but it doesn't mean you get to have the enjoyment of playing. Yeah, this guy that I follow Michael McCann, who's like a sports lawyer type, he says, yeah, the NCAA will know. doubt appeal and argue this ruling will give other athletes less fear of anti-betting rules. Exactly. All right. So there you go. Let's go to the Astros for a minute.

Are we done with Mike Burroughs? I mean, it's been 13 starts, Ross. It's been 13 starts, Ross. Come on. That's it. Oh, 13 starts? He's the worst ever now. He's 26 or what? Years old.

Somewhere around there. Remember when in spring training when we heard he had red ass? Well, he's getting his ass. Well, don't, yeah. Be careful Yeah, it's going to say Slow down Oof, 577 ERA

Yeah, didn't look great yesterday It's been giving up the long ball Too more home runs yesterday Yeah, it's just You know, if he'd stop giving up Home runs to everyone He actually wouldn't be that bad Excuse me?

If he would stop handing out home runs Like Halloween candy It's like saying if you'd stop cheating On my wife, you'd be a good husband, right? Yeah, exactly That's just got to fix this one thing. Oof, last several starts Two home runs, two home runs, one home run,

two, two home runs. How many total? There's too many isn't there? Yeah, that was nine. Nine in his last five starts, home runs given up. It's not good. 691 ERA over that.

And actually, yeah, it looks like he is, by some metrics, he's been lucky to only give up that many runs. It's not good. You mean like if he's in different ballparks, it'd be gone? Right. Oh!

Oh! You know, know what we got to do? He should only pitch in pitcher-friendly parks. Okay. Just work his schedule around? Selective starting. So let's go to places where he can pitch. Okay.

Houston? No. San Diego? Yes. They are going to San Diego this year. Detroit? Yes. Kansas City? Oh, they brought the fences in. Oh, they did? So I'm going to put that as a no. They brought them. They moved them in Baltimore as well, right? Yes. Cleveland only to left field. Yankee Stadium, no.

Fenway Park, no. So he can only pitch the right? He's in Cleveland? You shut him down when a left he comes up? Bingo. Bingo. Bingo. Boston, no. New York, Yankees, no. Arlington, no. He already pitched in Denver.

San Francisco, he probably can. It says it was cold. That was Christian Javier looking. Coming back, he's on the mend. Man, there was so much hype. And I guess we were hyping him too. We hyped them up ourselves. Yes.

And we're frauds for hyping. Yes, we did. It's fine. Because you know what when I got caught up in it? Because we were down in spring training. Yes. And I remember talking to Joe Espada. And he was talking to the media about how they saw him play for Pittsburgh.

And Espada's like, I like that dude. If we could ever kick the tires on him, let's go kicking. Well, they kicked him. And the tires are flat. Tires are flat right now, Matt. But he's got his jack out and he's ready to twist off some yellow lug nuts. No, he's me. He doesn't know how to change a tire.

Oh, no. Man, it's not that hard. It looks very difficult. No, just jack the car up. Well, first you'll unscrew the lug nuts. You know the incredible Hulk hurt himself by changing a tire? Okay, Matt. Come on.

What? Yeah. You didn't see the episode where Bill Bixby is David Banner? No, that was 30 years before he was born. All right. And also, Matt, don't say that out loud. Just don't tell people you can't change a tire. Jonathan, you know how to change the tire?

It's okay. Jonathan, but you shouldn't tell people. Like, if you want to, it's like walking around and lingerie at your house. If you want to do that, that's okay, but you don't have to go telling everyone. You know what? No one's taught me, but I want to learn. Ah-ha.

Oh, there we go. I don't know. Hold on now. Two-thirds of the show does not have an auto-tend tire. He gets a pass. He's like 23. He's 23. How long have you been driving? You were 16? You've had seven years to learn. No, no, no. Actually, I got my first car when I was 20. So I had my car for three years.

It's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, anything. At one point it becomes not your fault. It's kind of not, and at some point it becomes it is your fault. Like I got taught, my father made me change tires when I was a teenager. So if you're, if you didn't have that for yourself, that's not your fault. But once you read it for a certain age, you need to know, you need to have learned. Jonathan certainly isn't a gray area. Kind of probably should have learned. I know what's up. No one taught me. I'll, I know. I know. At some point you've got to take responsibility, Jonathan. Three things in my life I've never done.

Oh, no. Cook the brisket? Oh, I did that this past weekend. It's delicious. I have never cooked a turkey. Okay? Never changed a tire. You never cooked turkey either?

Mm-mm. You just shove it in the oven. No, I think it's more than that. You have to baste it and put the stuffing in there. It's fine. You just inject it with some Cajun butter. Look, I turned 54 on. Friday. Thanks for the great message you sent me. Oh, happy. Thank you. You're welcome.

And I have never... I was staying off my phone, Matt. I was just... I'm happy. I was disconnected. I figured you would send you would send me proper wishes when you got back. Yeah. And when did you get back? Right now. No, you were here. Happy birthday. You have been here since Saturday. I flew in on Saturday. Then I had, then I went to college station for the game. So the phone reception was bad. Yesterday, getting my fares in order and sleeping. So I hadn't had, I haven't had the time. You didn't have the chance to get a son of five second text. I haven't had the time. No, because I want to send you a, I want to sit down. I want to sit down. and send you a long, thoughtful message, and I haven't had the time for that.

All right, I'm bothered by something. I need Ross for you to take the phone call while I researches. I saw something on Twitter that alarms me about this whole source of me. Oh, you got a fact check. I got a fact check something real quick. Okay, good. All right, to tell the truth come up at 1130 today. Ted the truth.

And we have Believe it or not today, which is about ticket prices. Really? That's another thing. these ticket prices have just gone up and down and up and down for getting into New York. Okay. And the World Cup? Available? I don't know if the prices are fluctuated.

The biggest fluctuation tickets this week has been the ticket prices for Spurs games in San Antonio and obviously what's going on in New York. Okay. I got a fact check something first. All right. Talk to the fine people of Houston, Texas. Okay. You want to do that? You go to line three.

Oh, okay. I got to look this on. Sure. Why not? Easy. What's up, Easy? what's going on gentlemen happy monday same to you i got three things uh the texas tech kid i mean you know he's being he's compulsive i mean he's young he can still turn his life around uh i mean

it's it's just one of those things that you know you get caught up you know in a system where you know you can't watch a game where unless you have some money on it it's boring to you and i get it i mean maybe maybe slap him with a half a season you know that he doesn't work i mean he doesn't make any money, but, you know, let the guy play. Number two, I do know how to change the tire. That's good. Now we're at 50%. Hey, we should ask every caller, Matt, that calls in.

Do you know how to change a tire? We're not putting it on Twitter because I don't want to get annihilated. No, yeah, we don't want to do that. At least we know people that call in at least somewhat like. You're probably not Gambler Jim who's on the line, but we'll keep tabs. So you're a yes, change tire. So we're at two to two guys But there's a thing called

Triple A and they charge you 12 bucks a month So I don't have to do it You know There's I learned how to cut the grass When I was 12 But I got a guy now Yeah So I got you

You know what That's a soft pedal I appreciate that That feels good That you can Pay you to do something That you don't know how to do Yeah

Yeah I got you Well I know how to do But I just don't want to do Yeah Third one Was instead of Mike Burroughs in the starting line, I mean, in the rotation.

What about Blue Ball? What do you guys think about that? And, I mean, he did pretty well, I mean, when he was spot starting. And I'll hang up and listen, gentlemen. All right. Thank you very much on that. Spot starting, don't know. Six-man rotation, he's in it.

Question to be, I've got, I got to look at the June counter. Are there off days that would have 100 Brown comes back? There's one Thursday. I don't know about the rest of the month. I would have to look at that, too. I think there's a couple coming up, but I would have to pull up the schedule. I fact-checked something. Okay, good.

You remember there was an original judge that had guns up? Yeah, it had guns up. So they get this guy, Ken Curry, Judge Ken Curry, to come from Fort Worth to Lubbock to hear this case. Okay. Where did Judge Ken Curry go to law school? Baylor. Worse. Harvard.

Worse. Yale. Worse. You're getting colder, though. Oxford. I'll say Texas Tech. Oh, Houston? University of Houston Law School?

Uh-oh. Yeah, so it sounds like he's unbiased. Go cooks? Yeah. Shut your bum ass up, complaining cooks? Your guy must be unbiased. He must have got a hooker in Lubbock. That's what you want.

You want to go there for? Yeah, seriously. It takes one hooker for him to compromise his integrity. From Lubbock? I guess that's what cougars do. University of Houston Law School. Shame, shame, shame, shame. Shout out. You should be proud.

I'm not proud. He's made it up to judge. It's Fort Worth. Is that really even a county? Yeah, it counts. Sort of. I mean, sure. Most of your cases involve petty theft. Who paid, I mean... And I don't know, livestock issues.

We paid for... The state of Texas paid for this cat to go to fly from Fort Worth to Lubbock to hear this case and he ruled the wrong way? What makes you say it's wrong, Matt? By the letter of the law. He learned the law at U of H. Ugh. It's disgusting. So is either U of H law school is no good or this guy is incompetent. The U of H.

law school gradies. I will say just, I will say there are incompetent people that have Harvard grade degrees. That's true. A lot of them. Yale can't be perfect. A lot of them are in our political midst. Yeah. University of Texas, they're all ripe.

U.H law is very, very esteemed Matt. It is actually, it is. University of Houston's very, my mom worked for a law firm. And she would have people from Houston. that would, there was a cat, there was two different stacks and they were looking for prospective lawyers. University of Houston and Texas and then everybody else. Yikes. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

1101 on Sports Talk 790. Good morning. It is Matt and Ross with you here on this Monday. We look forward to having you a part of the show at 713-212-5-790. 713, 212, 5, 790. Astros fall to the A's 5-0-0 yesterday. In Anaheim to take on the Los Angeles Angels, or the Angels of baseball, I don't know what the hell they're calling themselves.

They're just the Los Angeles Angels. Yeah. They'll have the On-Dex show at 730 tonight. It's like the Dallas Cowboys playing Arlington. Oh, by the way, we had two Dallas teams moving out of Dallas while you were gone to. Oh, really? What happened? The Mavericks? Mavericks are going to go to Valley View, which is northwest of the city. No, northeast of the city.

And the stars are going to Plano. So, they're, oh, they played in the same arena, but they're not going to anymore. They're going to build two different arenas. Wow. Yes. What the hell's going on out here? And it sounds like

the bears are going to Hamon, Indiana. The Chicago Bears. The Chicago Bears, although there's legislators in Indiana that would like to change their name to the Indiana Bears. Which I don't think it's ever going to happen. No. Look, people are going to, people are wiggin out about it and I understand but remember Hammond to Chicago 15, 20 minutes stops.

It's not like it's like it's like, you know, the giants and the jets have played in East Ruther for New Jersey. It's a stone's throw from New York City. Right. But it's still, it hurts. It hurts that the Chicago Bears are not playing in Chicago. Suburbs, here they come, Rossi. What about? I never thought what happened?

I never thought this would happen as much as it is. But we are, they are leaving the downtrower. metropolis. I wonder if it's just because real estate's too expensive. I'm sure it's a combination of factors, taxes. And by way, you're getting more land to build your restaurants, your bars, your hotels, that kind of stuff that you're on. More area for you to

control. But I mean, there's land that the Texans can try to take over over there off Kirby. Yeah, Asterold's just sitting over there by itself. Poor Texas Cyclone just sitting there. Nobody's riding it. The Texas Cyclone isn't there anymore. No grease lightning. Those

all got sold off somewhere, Matt. No, Accelerate? No, those aren't there. The mine mind bender isn't there either. No, Waterworld. Waterworld was nice. Let me tell you about Water. Cool off at the Water World. When I first... Some pee water for six hours in the middle of June, some good times. When I first started realizing how much I loved women, it was at Waterworld. Oh, really? Yes. Okay. It was the Great Awakening. It woke. All right. You know what? That's my fault, folks. I set that one up. I want to apologize, Jonathan. That was my bad. Write that down for Friday.

Oh, what? Apologize for you making a crass joke? No, you apologize. I'm sorry. You're not. But I wasn't the only one. If you all went to Waterworld back in the day, you experienced it too.

It's a good time. Problem was I had to wear a shirt because I had such large belly fat. Maybe it was Splashdown, too. Any of them, right? Shout out Splashdown. What'd you say? What? You were embarrassed, so you put a t-shirt on?

Yeah, I had so much belly fat? Oh. I had man boobs. No, thank you. So you were staging your one-man wet t-shirt contest. Ironically, enough. And I lost. Bad times.

You know what I always say good times? Bad times. Well, now you're doing great, Matt. Doing much better. That which does not kill you, make you stronger. That's right. Is that an improving your diet? You're looking great.

Although I got chicken fingers coming this way in a few minutes, so. You ordered food again? You're just trying to make me hungry. That attack is ridiculous. That's accurate. 713-1-2-12-5-7. 97-13-212-1-2-5-7-90. So we have game 3, the NBA Finals tonight.

We've got Astros and Angels. I'll hold the on deck at 7.30. It means a post-game show is not going to probably start until 11-15, 11-30. Oh, God. Oh, I have a slight travel conundrum to get to at some point. I have a conundering as well, but you know what? It's a Monday. When's a Monday conundrums?

May I knock mine out quickly? Sure. You can say, I talk to Jonathan. Okay, okay. So make sure I'm okay on this. Yeah, you're good. So someone offered me. You can say?

Okay, his name is Ross. He called at about 9.30 this morning. He said, I'm going to Rick Ronald's. Would you like anything? Yes. And when I was driving up, I wasn't particularly hungry. I'm hungry now. But I was thirsty.

Right. I really wanted you to get me a large, unsweet tea. Okay. My conundrum is this. When you grab somebody food, it goes into a bag. It's easy to transport. It's no big deal, right? If you ordered an egg muffin and hash brown.

I got a McGriff. I'm sorry, I've got griddles. If you ordered another McGrittle and goes in the bag, it's no sweat. Okay. I ask you to get me a large unsweet tea. That's laborsome. I don't, thus I didn't do it. I think it's above board.

Okay. I think it's totally fine. Unless you're saying, like, get me three of them. and I don't know six mortar mounters with Mies I don't know exactly what you're saying Like if you call If you call me from Starbucks

Then the presumption is you've got to get a drink I think large Large unsweet tea is is totally above board Josh is you okay with that On the ordering of a soft drink Yeah I don't see what the problem is Yeah I just think it's a lot of extra work That's all I understand

Just very considerative you man I'm actually shocked I told you he missed you No I totally would have been okay I wouldn't have thought twice about it Now of course I come up here and I have like a handbag And I would have had food and stuff I would have managed

Okay well I just want to ask you to go there Yeah unless you ask for six gallons or something like that It's not weird Okay so now I know the next time you call Yes I will ask for a drink of some sort Which is rare I'm up early enough for that It's been like about once a quarter if that Fresh off your vacation you noticed that

Yeah I know I know I think I'll come to the office on time. See, I'm feeling rested and refreshed and reset and clear-minded. She used to be happy. I know, I know. That's what I did yesterday. That's why I did to tell the truth. Believe it or not.

Yeah. All right, what's your conundrum? So I was driving, I'm sorry, I was riding home from the airport. I got it. I got a boobber or a diff. But you did not get a railroad. No, I'll never do those. Okay.

I don't think. Which I saw some people who are more, having more problems with those. You know what you got to. You got to do it once to say that you did it. I'm good. But I would do a short distance. I mean, depends. I can't completely 100% rule it out, especially if somebody else wants to do it that I'm with.

So I got picked up in a pickup truck, which is rare. And I had a big suitcase and I had my backpack. And it went in the bed. So I put my big suitcase in the back, didn't think anything of it. Like, whatever, it's all good. And about five minutes down the road, it starts to rain. And it's probably about a 25, 30-minute ride to get me home. sprinkling or a good old-fashioned shower?

It's not a downpour. If we're going like Hurricane Harvey's a 10, it was like a 6. Oh, that's too much. Too much. If you're saying Harvey's a 10, you said a 6? Okay, maybe I'll pump it down to a 5. But it was raining, but not pouring.

All right. The guy has not said a word. He didn't offer. He has not said a word the whole time. He's just listening to actually a podcast. And he basically said, hi. We haven't been chatting. we haven't been talking at all.

So at that point, do I say, hey, can we pull over to get my wet suitcase to bring into your car? And by the way, it is a hard-sided suitcase, I will say. It's a hard-sided suitcase, or do I just ride it out and hope that the rain stops? Can I give you two different viewpoints on this? Yes. I probably would have asked to pull over. That's just me. But you had to realize, when you, if you have to realize, if you have to.

had landed at Hobby Airport. I'm assuming it's hobby, right? And you landed and it was raining. It was clear. I'm just saying if it was raining, the guys that are handling the suitcases wouldn't have cared about whether or not was raining. They were going to pull your bag off. So you're probably going to have a wet bag to begin with. That's what I'm saying. You were clear. That does play a factor. If the suitcase was already wet, then you know what? You've got to take the L on this one. I've only gotten Uber one time in a truck. It was in Oklahoma City hour and I clearly the whole place is.

my leading would have been I would have said hey do you mind pulling over I hemmed and I hawed oh you're pastive aggressive no I wasn't I'm not allowing I'm sorry I mean mentally hemmed it hot I was going I wish we could pull over You didn't say damn this

You didn't say damn this rain This rain is really falling Terrence You didn't turn your neck back and forth to the Yeah I didn't start like wow look at this rain He didn't offer though. That's kind of, mm.

He didn't say a word. I was hoping that he would offer. So I was panicking for a minute. I looked up on my, I literally looked up the radar on my phone. And I was like, if it's like a storm, I got to ask him to pull over. Like, this is going to be bad. I looked up and it was just a like spotty rain and we were out of rain in like a couple of minutes. And I did have a hard-sighted thing.

And then it rained a little bit when I was getting home, closer to home. So I didn't know, did I, like, completely who's out? Or was I just in a tough spot? And how did I handle that? You take no blame. Okay. It was hard-sighted. So you had that going for you.

Soft-sided, this is not a debate. Soft-sided, I would have been like, I'm sorry, dude. We got to get this thing back in here. Correct. Correct. Okay. You're fine. Okay.

Did it affect your tip to him? No. I don't think so. Give him five stars? Yes. Well, then he's winning. I know. I mean, he was, like, I like silent Uber driver.

Me too, I like, hello, how's it going? And let's get to our destination. Let me say something. The best Uber ride ever went was from downtown Washington, D.C. to Dulles Airport, which is about 45 minutes. It's the suburban airport. Yeah. I closed my eyes. And the next thing I know, we got to Dulles.

And I was like, I gave the guy a super big tip. I gave him six stars. I wrote a nice recommendation. I'm like, this was the best ride ever. The less we speak, the better. Now, if he wants to bring up something or I bring him something, it's fair game. I would say 90% of the time I'm not in a chatty mood. Yeah.

It was 10% I probably had a couple of drinks. Okay. Would you chat about Mike Burroughs? What would I say about him? Would you chat about the miraculous recovery of Jose Altuve? I heard about that. Yeah. You went deep on Saturday, too.

Didn't play yesterday, but that's the way. He's got obliques of steel. And did you talk about Lamont Wade Jr.? No, I did not talk about Lamont Wade Jr. That's the cruiser wave, right? WBC cruiserweight champion? No, no, no. Lamont Wade,

the Bone Crusher Jr. Was a triple short of the cycle. Okay. Put some respect on his name. All right, I'm sorry. To tell the truth is coming up at the bottom of the hour. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

It's 118 on Sports Talks. 7-90 to tell the truth is coming up in about 10 minutes from now. Game 3 of the NBA Finals. By the way, believe it or not today is going to be about ticket prices. And you can go see. Now, you could Google it, but you'd have to have zero life to do this. Well, I think a lot of prize wars.

So I did. Are great and have great lives. We appreciate listening. When I see their favorite part of the show, they go they just tuned in. It's funny, they just tuned in at $150 every day. They always had a doctor's appointment. Yeah. Yeah, something's going wrong.

It's very curious how that always happens. So, Jonathan, I sent you the numbers yesterday. I'm going to update them on a couple of things. Okay. Some of the events are in the middle of next 12 hours, and some events are a few weeks away. So I don't know the answer to this. I pose this yesterday.

How are these brokers getting this? Are these not brokers? These are just regular old Joe Shmose that are like, you know what? I have a price. I love my Knicks, but I love my Knicks, but I love money more. It's a season ticket holders.

I'm sure a lot of them are, and a lot of season ticket holders who are brokers, and they hope for the big payoff for these types of scenarios. Yeah. So I'm going to do real quick, I'm going to give you guys a freebie. I'm believing or not today,

for those of you are listening. I've been using... Thank you. I've heard people having a lot of issues with them, by the way. I wouldn't spend any money with them here nor there. I mean, if they want to spend money with us, we'd be happy to talk about. So I'm going to give you what right now,

Now, if you want to sit in, let's say the best seats in the house for tonight's next game three. Okay. Best seats in the house. Can I guess? Yeah, why not? Let me give me. This is for two tickets, by the way. Oh, God, I have no reference for this. I know.

I didn't do it. This is terrible because it was fluctuated. 30 Gs? You would like to sit in the best seat in the house according to this one particular website. There's a bunch of them. Okay. Two tickets. $49,000.

a piece. $49,000 American? Correct. Not Canadian or something? If you want to get in the building off of this website, which they will not get any more pub, just to get in, $3,000. $4,315. So on today's edition of Believe it or not, Jonathan, I want you to go to question. Let's see what I sent you to.

I think I sent it to you. Did I not? You did. Okay. I hate when I have to live look at emails on the show. It's not great radio. I'm sorry. You know what?

Follow me on Instagram. Yeah, follow it's RV. Well, your photos were nice from your trip. Yeah, I just put up a little compilation of the photos for my trip out at Big Bear Lake. It was gorgeous out there. Okay. So now, number three, this is number three in the believer in. I'm going to change the answer.

The cheapest ticket to get into tonight's game if you go to this website, The cheapest is $4,315. If you just want to get in. I'm good. And New York is like a different planet. There's like 23 million people there or whatever. It's $4,000 for an apartment for like basically a studio apartment. I just don't understand it.

It's completely crazy. So cheapest is 4315. Use that to your knowledge on believe it or not. Okay. So yesterday, Vanessa is working the hoop streams and she was on the show for a few minutes last week. Okay. Vanessa Williams?

Vanessa Richardson. Okay. She's having dinner at this New York Steakhouse last night. Oh, wow. All right. And she put a little Instagram photo where she was. Uh-huh. I went to look to the menu.

You did? I don't know what kind of ESPN expense money she gets. Yeah. Rib-eye steak. $128. $15. Oh, I thought I was overestimating. I guess I did.

$115 bucks for real. Is it a regular old rabbi? I'll go to the grocery store. I'm good. I'm making it home. I mean, I know beef prices have gone up, but my God. Yeah, it's getting ridiculous. Brisket prices are getting ridiculous, too.

Don't even get me started on that. Okay, so let's get the game itself. My audience, your audience. Yes. We've been arguing all week. I think, well, let me put it this way. I got to say this. I thought that before the series started, the Spurs were winning in five.

Obviously, New York has played him brilliantly. Jalen Brunson has been absolutely amazing. Carl Anthony Towns has played the best basketball of his life. New York goes to San Antonio wins both games there. Winby threw away game two. Wemby open shot to win it. There's no other way to say it. And threw the ball off of who's back?

Was it Castle's back? I can't remember. He threw it. Well, Castle wasn't ready for it. Yeah. And turned it over. Wemby's, I want to say he's been humanized. Yeah.

But I'm not going to let two games make me think that Wemby's hot garbage, unlike probably the next show that will. I like the discourse that's kind of popping up about if Wimby loses how they're, you know, the Jordan stands. They love the 6 and 0 finals record, how in their mind it's better that they would, if they had lost game 7 against the Thunder, that's better than losing in the finals as a 22 year old. Because Jordan's 6 and O in the finals and now Wimby can't ever touch Jordan because he lost. in the finals. That's flawed. Yeah, it's stupid. It's better to lose in the first round and get swept

than it is in the finals in the mind of of the Jordan stands. I love Jordan. He's the best player of all time. But to cross-reference Wemby and Jordan right now, that's ridiculous. Yeah, people are doing that already. I saw it on the Twitterverse.

So what I thought about was this. You know, we're talking about The Yokic's of the world, the Joanne Beads when he's healthy, the Victor Wimbunyama's. Jalen Brunson's the best player on that floor. He's been great. He has a small.

He's a great story, yes. And he has the fade away. He shows no fear. He misses three or four shots in a row. You know what he does? He gets back up and he goes and plays again. He's not like, you know, some kind of all-time high-flying athlete,

like LeBron James or even Michael Jordan. He's just extremely. skilled, plays extremely hard, he's just good. And you got to respect it. Absolutely. And the Dallas Mavericks did not respect it. No, they did that. I told the audience yesterday when you were gone, I said, I have a friend of mine who works with the Mavericks, and I said, you all going to re-sign jail in Brunston?

I said, nah, he's a dime a dozen. He wanted, you know, he wanted big money, and he said, he said, he'd go look for it, and he found it. I'd have to go look up the numbers again, but I think it was like the cabs off term of, like 50 million, and then he got 150 million from Knicks. They were way off. Yeah, everyone's like, That's going to be bad money spent.

You know we do that in sports. You know that, right? Yeah. How many people have we talked, you're going to get this with missing you at 1.30 today. Okay. We talk about this all the time. Bad money spent on Alex Breggman.

Alex Breggman has been a complete bus for the Chicago Cubs. Kyle Tucker, even though they're playing really well, you've been a bust. Yeah, they're fine. I mean, they can live without it because they've got 19 other stars, but point being is that Kyle Tucker has done nothing to make the Dodgers significantly better baseball team. Oh, yeah, I haven't put, pulling.

up his number. I'll save it for missing you. Don't want to spoil it, Matt. The most impressive player? Does it ring with Romber Malas? Nope. Oh, oh, I know who it is. DeBio Ruron. I was going to say. Well, I mean, Dan, and last week as of last Monday's missing you, I know you were missing us. Hesu Sanchez had better power and better OPS numbers in both Kyle Tucker and Alex Breggman. And this is where I think it's fair to criticize Jim Crane. I know he doesn't want to spend the big long money in contracts. Well, Hesu Sanchez isn't making $40 million. Mariso Dubon wasn't making even $10 million.

It's almost like... You wanted to get under the threshold and hurt... At the expense of the quality of the team. Yeah, it's almost like you can live with the big boys going because you know that that's just not in the owner's DNA. You just can't miss on the second... And I'm in second tier. The third tier guys.

You have to have a share of third tier guys on your team that are contributing. Yes. And you got Teesu Sanchez out of here for Joey Lopo Fido, which, by the way, I win a bet. We met on AAA, AAA plate appearances for Joey Loporffito. So let me tell you what a bogus thing this is. Why is it bogus? Oh, I'm curious to hear how this is bogus. Because you won.

Go ahead. Okay, word travels. He's off the injure list. Woo! Yeah. And he didn't even get to go to Dykin Park. What the hell did we bet on that? I think maybe like a bag of chips.

or something. I've got to go look this up. By the way, I've made an executive decision on the Joe Mixen bet. What? I can't pay off on it yet. What? Until when? He doesn't have a job. Okay.

So that means you win? There are 10 million outcomes, and you have one outcome. I have the field. Your one outcome is that he fired a loaded weapon into his own foot and went to the hospital, and somehow it never got reported. Jonathan. Oh, stop. You know, I have literally every other outcome.

If he was climbing Mount Everest and twisted his foot into a crevice, I have that. I have a lottery ticket for Friday. You want to throw it away? Yeah. Yeah. You should. The results are not yet.

Yo, please. You know, I- No, the results are out. I was on the Twitter streets and they were like, what happened to, you know, they're having a discussion. I go into the conversation. They were like, I guarantee you the 50 people saying, I don't know, but work.

going to believe the rumor that he shot himself. Oh, okay. And I'm like, that's the only one. Okay, well, I'm on the Twitterverse and they say the earth is flat. Okay? That doesn't mean the earth is flat. Bang, bang. Ridiculous.

Okay, so what's the date? What he signed? Okay. Let me even look. I don't even know we bet on that either. He's a free agent. Oh, that's right. It was coffee and a croissant.

It was a high-end coffee. And a high-end pastry. I couldn't get you something. It was already pre-packaged. I mean somebody has to be baked that day. I want a large cold brew and a cunamand. let's go. All right.

I want to know where the loperfeito I want to know where the bullet fragments are. Oh, it's an appetizer. We bet an appetizer on the low perfeito. Appetizer, where? I don't know. Well, I mean... All right, well, you want me an appetizer.

I get you some... Has you got a plate appearance? Chicken avocado egg rolls at Big City Wings, all right? Has it gotten a plate appearance with the Space Cowboys yet? I have not paid attention. Maybe I should. We'll go look it up. But I do.

All right. Jonathan, to give you a little bit of a better chance to win this week, I'm going to turn my body away from Ross so he cannot see my emotions, my expressions, none of that. That's a while, yeah. You got a camera. You got to look for when he cracks a smile for his really bad ones. Okay, so turn far away from me. Fine. So last week, Jonathan had a chance to gain some ground on you, he did not do so.

Really? Sadly. I'm going to preface. Okay. I really got a zero zero. No result and you still can make up ground? You know what? We're like the Astros.

Just give us time. Oh, hey. Time to slip sliding away. Hey, hey, there's still 95 some games left. How many? Are we going only four and a half back now? Is that the shirt? No, it's only three back in the wallet card.

Oh, we've swapped in the wild card mode. We are in full wall of card mode. Oh, my gosh. All right. Gentlemen, I have four takes. Okay. three of them are lies. One truth.

Ooh, this is the difficult way to do it. Okay, one truth, yes. Three lies. Okay, here we go. And again, I'm turning away from you. Okay. Remember I told you I wasn't doing Jack Squad this weekend? Uh-huh.

I watched 98% of game three of the Stanley Cup finals between the Las Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes. Mm-hmm. that game was a double overtime. Even though I'm not a hockey fan, I am hooked into the Stanley Cup finals. Okay, that's my first take. Okay. Number two, even though I'm not a soccer,

by the way, these are all starting with even though I'm. Okay. Number two, even though I'm not a soccer fan, I am legitimately amped up for the World Cup. Why, Matt? Because, first of all, it happens once every four years. second of all, it's in the United States. And third, I work with you.

You appreciate it. My oldest son loves it. My oldest son of my middle boy went to the game this weekend in College Station. Okay. Had a great time. And again, I don't have to really, I can be on my phone and watch the game and not feel like I'm missing anything in life. Okay. All right.

So that's take number two is even though I'm not a soccer fan, I am fired up with the World Cup. Okay. Take number three. even though I'm not a tennis fan I enjoyed the French Open final yesterday first of all I love watching tennis on the clay courts this Jverev whatever has been trying over and over and over to win he beats Kobali it went a bunch of hours

and like I said I wasn't doing this weekend so I was having coffee moving channels around and I found myself stuck on TNT and I enjoyed it a lot way more than I did so I will say French Open you win great final match okay yeah And number four, even though I am not a Spurs fan, and you guys clearly know that, I still think the Spurs are going to win this series. I shouldn't say we'll win it.

They can win it. I don't think 2-0 is a death nail for them, even though they're going to New York. I think San Antonio still is a very deep basketball team. I think still Wemby is very difficult to stop. And I think Vassell and Castle and Johnson will have better performances. They have, D. Aaron Fox, same kind of thing. I think Spurs make this a series And I think they can win it?

Will they win it? I don't know, but can they win it? Absolutely. So the four takes again are, number one, I'm putting a shield over my head here. Okay. Even though I'm not a hockey fan, I'm hooked into the Stanley Cup finals.

Hooked on the finals. Number two, even though I'm not a soccer fan, I'm fired up for the World Cup. Okay. Number three, even though I'm not a tennis fan, I really enjoyed the French Open final yesterday. You're just saying you enjoyed it, not like your tennis fan number one. No, no, but I really enjoyed it.

Okay. And number four, even though I'm not a Spurs fan, I still think the Spurs can win the series. Which one of those four am I telling you the truth? I can turn to your look. Okay. That was difficult. Yeah.

All right, Jonathan, how are we feeling? I'm not believing this French open, not forbid. I'm agreeing with you on that. I don't know how much time he spent on it. He has historically like, I mean, I could kind of see that, but I don't like that one. I think the soccer one, I'm way out. There's no way he's amped up. Will he watch some cursory interest?

Maybe, but fired up. I don't feel like there's any way he's fired up. I don't think he knows Messi's name. For the World Cup. He didn't play on Saturday. I saw him. I saw him. We're in the same building.

That's close you ever been to him, correct? Absolutely. I can say I saw, you know, I saw Leonel Messi. I just don't put play at the end of that sentence. If you had a media credential and he was walking one direction and the other, would you have just said hello or nothing? I would say a hand or anything? trying to shake his hand. You know that's completely unprofessional.

Try to touch him. No, but he's, I mean, he's the goat. Okay. He's the greatest athlete I've ever seen. But that's special, though. If he's the greatest, then you can do that, right? Can I guess so? Okay.

I'm saying above Brady, LeBron, MJ, all that. Messy. Okay. All right, go on. I could see him being interested in the Stanley Cup finals, Jonathan, but I don't know if I'm buying hooked, hooked on the Stanley Cup finals. Hmm.

but I also don't know that I believe here are the verbs. Hooked? Yes. Fired up. Enjoyed. And I still think the Spurs can win the series. And we're looking for a truth, right? Looking for a truth.

One truth. This was kind of tough. That makes me happy. You've been saying, go New York go all week. Because I was rooting for it. That's not changing. I will go with, I think it's one or four. I will go with.

Four. You know what? I'm gonna go one. Let's do a Hail Mary. Okay. You guys, votes are in? Yeah, I'm going four. Down one, 25.

I didn't watch a second of the French Open. See, I knew. I didn't not watch that French open. Okay. That was going to surprise me. I'm not fired up for the World Cup. I'm sorry. I just can't.

I know what I'm on. Yeah, but fired up would be way too strong. I would say wait till the knockout round start. Because, yeah, you're like North Macedonia versus the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's not going to really get you going. Now, they let everybody in. There's too many teams. If you call me and said, hey, me, if you call me and said, Cam and I are going to go watch the championship,

you go eat with us? Yeah, I'd probably would do. On the curb, baby. Let's go. Okay. One and four, pretty close, Jonathan. And I have news for you, Jonathan. Ross takes a bigger lead on you now.

I still think the spurs can win. the series. Come on now. That is a Stephen A. Smith hot take. Jonathan. They are up two and they're in New York for two games. Jonathan, what happens when you pick a series? You stick with it till it's done. Of course, Matt. He's like all of us. We all have our biases

towards our own pick. You are here all week. Go New York. Go New York. Go New York. Go. Go New York. Go. I still think the Spurs can win it, though. And Wemby is getting tore up. I don't know how you think they can win it. I don't think Wemby and T. Tor up isn't the same.

Because it's your pick. You make a Super Bowl pick and they're down 21 in the 4th. You're like, I still think they can do this. You stick with your pick. That's what we all do. Literally, here's what it is. Here's what it is. Here's my thought.

Literally Saturday night, I had nothing to do so I put the Stanley Cup on. Yeah. And it was okay. Good, but you weren't hooked. But I was like, the first overtime, I was like, can we just get this game over? Because I wasn't going to go to sleep.

Sudden death is fun. It's like, whoa! Every shot. That's honestly, what the draw of soccer is because, yes, there's not a whole lot of scoring, but the goals matter that much more. That's why it can be exciting. Did you see how the game ended on Saturday? Which one?

The Carolina Vegas game? Yeah, with the... Own goal. Yeah. Oh, is it an own goal? On goal, Carolina, yeah. Oh, so on the bus ride back, we were watching the game on my brother's phone, so I didn't see there was an own goal.

We just saw that a goal scored and we kind of turned off. Yeah, the guy from Carolina, again, I know nothing about hockey. He tries to get it out of way from the net. It hits the skate of the skate of the game. the goalie and it goes in for the winning. Tough. Meanwhile, the Vegas bro is celebrating like he had just scored the goal over there.

He's like, oh, I got that. You didn't do nothing to do it, maybe. Oh, poor Jonathan, you're so, you made up no ground last year. Now you lose ground. I'm just down four. I need four weeks to get back. Four weeks? Yeah, it's because every Monday, so I'm down four. That means Ross comes to go on a

serious lump. You know what you are? You're down three on a Western Conference Playoff series. I thought you were going to say you're the Astros in fourth place. Oh, that's what I said. Exactly. And Astros do have hope. You have hope, but how much of that hope going to be realized?

Still reasonable. Yeah, you're the Mike Burroughs of this competition. You know what? You know what? That comp is so good because you're here every week. See? You do what I'm saying? And you only make one mistake.

It's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time. You got close. You ruled out the two easy ones. You pinch three and two-thirds scoreless, but then you got into trouble in the fourth. So what is that? Quality light?

I was going to say, if you were going to think that I thought the French, if it was good, I was going to have to probably have to bar you from this game. I knew. There's no way.

He didn't rule that one out first. You were like Zarev and Kule Balet. It was last summer. I was like, Balli Bollies are playing tennis now? In fact, to make it sound, I'm worried about I wrote their names down.

I wanted to make sure that you said. You still didn't read them right. Well, I didn't know how they're pronounces. But I wrote them down. It's great. 1145 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 1151 on Sports Talk 790.

It is Matt. It's Ross. Well, the news at noon for you coming up. We're going to get more into Sourspe. Probably at about 1220 if you've not heard. A temporary injunction has been placed. on the ruling. The NCAA now has lost that court case again.

And Brandon Sorsby will be able to be the quarterback. By the way, they did put out more of the judge's ruling. He must miss those first two games. Okay. As part of it, he's got to do additional counseling. There's a lot of prerequisites. Okay. And one of them is he will be serving a two-game suspension

to the first time he will be able to play. We'll be on a national television stage, Friday night football, Lubbock, Texas, Houston versus Texas Tech. Go Coogs. You can even say that with a straight face. It makes me happy. Yeah, of course. Rooting against Cody Campbell and Texas Tech.

Oh, you missed all the Texas. Did you miss the Texas Tech, Texas scheduling stuff? What happened? Oh, I know the Cody Campbell's like, hey, schedule us, all that stuff. Because Sarkeesian, for whatever reason, said that they could go undefeated with their backups or something like that. Second and third timers, yeah. So, Cody's like, I'll. Mark, will you shut up?

Will you win a championship before you start talking crazy like that, please? So Cody says, I'll buy out Abilene Christian. Yeah. And then I'll buy out Texas State. Mm-hmm. Those two teams can play each other,

and we'll play each other. Now, he said either in Lubbock... Of course, that's never going to happen. In Lubbock or in... It's a jury world. Mm-hmm. But Texas is... I mean, they've already got Ohio State and an SEC slates.

Well, as I said before, you... If you're Texas, you just let the S-talking go. You have got Ohio State. You are not playing Texas Tech and Ohio State in consecutive weeks. You're just not. That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. And by the way, I don't know if I'm even a huge fan of impromptu scheduling.

I don't know. I'm not a huge fan of doing an eight years in advance, but I just don't think you could just, there's got to be some sort of organizational pattern. You just can't renegade games all the sudden. Because you wanted to. No, Cody Campbell knew that was never, that was an offer that was never going to be accepted.

He's very good at PR. game. Oh, let me tell you something. I mentioned this last year. When Texas Tech was at TDC Stadium, there was a line of people waiting to get his autograph. Yeah. He's a star. And he likes being a star, and that's okay.

Let me tell you something. He brings his paycheck. Yeah. Or his paycheck, his earnings. It is funny. I also brought this something. I'm signing to do a little recap for some of you, but I wanted to get Ross thought of this, too. So Texas Tech and Texas played for the World Series for the

women's World Series and Texas won two straight. And the Stuart Mendel's and some of the other college honks are like, imagine being Texas Tech spending $2.5 million on your college softball team and yet not being able to win a championship. And so the Texas Tech fans went after them and said, wait a bit, shut up. Everybody's spending money on volleyball on college sports and softball. Only one team wins. Only one team wins.

And that brought up to more of the macro view of this is, is that, you could write that tweet for 50 to 75 schools. Yeah. Even if I have no misgivings about we don't have as much, we being university using as much money as Texas and A&M and Texas Tech and Baylor and something. But we're still spending money. You, when you spend money like in pros, the rocket spent $40 million on Kevin Duran and $30 million on this. When you spend money, you want an end result.

We typically as sports people are disappointed because the money we spend doesn't necessarily guarantee any sort of championship. You still get the tax write off. So that's good. But this is the thing. You're going to see more tweets like this. Like I knew what's going to happen. You spend your NIL budget is $19 million and you finish third in your league. You're going to be imagine being that school and just inserting whoever you want to.

Yeah. I think it'll go in waves. It'll be up and down and it'll be a case-by-case school basis in terms of the. the money spent and a word we've been using a lot. Donor fatigue the last couple of years. Sometimes it's been happening in some places it has not. For instance, if you go 8 and 4. Yeah.

And Texas Texas says, man, we spent $19 million and man, this music city ball is awesome. Nobody says that. Yeah, a few years ago with Jimbo Fisher and they had the number one class and they had all the five stars. Everybody was all excited. And then when they all transferred out, NIL went down for Texas A&M. Now you had a great season. It goes back up. So it can go in waves too, but also, I mean, the resources of Texas A&M far outweigh those of a lot of other schools, if not, I mean, 99% of them.

But you're just going to see more of the, we spent that much money on this kid and that's what we do in pro sports. Got to win. Don't we do that? Yeah. We've been talking about Tatsu Yi might make an $18 million from almost a jump. Yeah, I know. You had him on a plane back to Japan. He makes their million dollars.

We don't care. He making $18. What the hell? He's opting in, baby. Well, maybe not. if he continues to pitch better and better and better. We'll see what happens with that. Now I'm mulling that over.

But yeah. Texas Tech spent I think the most amount of money under softball team and anybody in the country. Really? I'm thinking, you finished second? I mean, it's not terrible. It's not.

Yeah, that's another thing. If we frame everything, it's like championship or bust. But I guess when you're spending that much money, yeah. Now, Cody Campbell doesn't care because apparently he just continues to build interest. Those players aren't failures. The coaches aren't failures,

but probably to Cody Campbell, it feels like it was a failure. Or to others. Maybe. I don't know. But I was telling Matt, it just ruins all with the hard work of all of this. No,

it wasn't me. I'm on silent. We heard the text. Matt and I are blaming each other. That was you, wasn't it? No, no, it was me guys. Oh! From downtown!

You know what? Write that down. Friday 1130. A long shot. You're in a distant third long shot Go ahead I was just saying to Matt early this week Or last week

It just sucks because all that hard work Like you said the coaches The athletes do all season long All the weight training all they have to do with the schoolwork It just just because the higher up Spend more money on the program They get looked down upon at that point Yeah

I'm just saying that when you used to finish second At the women's college world series It was like, wow, this is amazing. This is so awesome. And now, if you're a Texas tech fan, you got Stuart Mandel going, imagine spending $2.5 million on Texas Tech softball only to finish second again. Yeah. What about you as a runner, Jonathan?

If you finish second, it's like, what's your attitude? It depends. If it's conference, you get second, you get that silver medal. It's cool. Yeah. But, you know, racing is a little different. If you're not first, you last almost a lot more time. You got a man.

I got you. All right. Let's get to, well, the. Caster should have done after last night's 5-0-0-0-0. To the athletics, get over it. It's 1158 on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Label for the shortstop Williams' backroom of the infield dirt makes the catch,

and that is the ball game. Astros miss out on a chance to sweep as the A's salvage the finale. Athletics win 5-0. Astros go 4-and-5 on their 9-game homestand against Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, And the age. Back in the road. On the road again? Just get over it.

Let's go to Los Angeles. Okay. Go to Anaheim. Sure, why not? Me. This song is hype. I'm sorry. I don't know Eagles had a lot of this.

I've never heard this song. Don't listen to the Eagle hate to my right over here. I don't hate the Eagles. You don't like them. They're fine. And this is fine. It's some of that soft country stuff, country rock stuff. I love it all.

Bless you, Eagles. That's good. And, of course, Hotel California is a jam. It is a jam. For sure. All right. We haven't done this in a week with you. I mean, I had to carry this right.

Believe it or not. Oh, shit. There we go. Jonathan, my believe it or nots were outstanding this past week. Were they not? Ross, you actually would be impressed. Really? Yeah.

I actually gave him in. I mean, maybe he's getting sharper. I'll take your word for it. You can't hear of a dispute. You can't leave me, though. I didn't listen. I'm telling you. He dismissed you.

That's what, look. Okay, good. I missed you guys too. No, I wouldn't miss it. No, no. No, I don't want you to think about it. I love working, but yes, I love relaxing too. You can love both.

Life is a balance, okay? Yeah. By the way, number of times I texted you while you were gone? Twice, but the Astro's schedule change. Yeah, you kept on saying, you get, do this game, do that game. Order me around. Yeah, I'm trying to relax. I screwed up.

It's fine. All right, let's get to the news. News and do. You know what? What, Matthew? When Dan Rather is out, and you have some jabroney coming to fill your spot it's not as good. We got Dan Ruther back.

Well, man, it's going to be back. The Astros lose yesterday. They still do take two out of three against the athletics, but unfortunately, Nick Kurtz and... Say that very slowly. Nick

Kurtz and other Sacramento Athletics players, including a Brent Rooker who had a home run as well. Score five runs. The Astros put up a squadouche. Jeremy Paine has been hitting well since coming back from injury, but he went 0 for 4.

And unfortunately, Mike Burroughs, not a quality start, light or any kind of quality start. Five innings pitch, eight hits, four earned runs. A couple of walks, only three strikeouts for him. ERA at 5.77 on the season, Matthew. We were hoping and had seen some flashes of him turning it around. The last couple of times out, he has not been good. And continues to give up a home run after a home.

run after a home run. I mean, my goodness. I think we counted it with something like nine starts in his last, I'm sorry, nine home runs in his last five starts, but Spencer Erigetti on the hill. Can he be the ace and the stopper for the Stroes? As he will take on, yeah, Grayson Rodriguez has been horrible for the Angels. They're terrible. They're terrible. Starting a three game series against the Angels, they'll get the day off on Thursday,

and then they'll be taking on Kansas City over the weekend as they hit the road. Three games against Angels? Is it a must sweep series, Matt? No. Okay. Must win series? Pretty much. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

You want to drop two or three the halos? No, you don't. You'd rather not. By the way, this is a very winnable road trip. You've got three in Anaheim and then three in Kansas City. Kansas City has been a major disappointment and the angels continue to suck. It's two last place teams. Let's go.

Get fat and happy, as Matt Thomas would say. Yes, I would. All right, elsewhere in the sports world, game number three. spurs holding as one and a half point underdogs against the New York Knicks in this one. Matt, how are we feeling? You think the spurs can get back in it? I do. That was my truth.

They're going to need to win tonight to really feel like they're back in it unless they want to do something that's never been done in NBA history and come back from an 03 deficit, although they could win game four, and then they would have two out of three at home. Do you think we're overselling the bonkers of New York Madison Square Garden? It's just because it's been so long since they've been in the finals. I mean, the fans seem really passionate. They do. But we'd be passionate, too. We haven't been to the finals in 30 years, which is the case.

I think there is kind of a little extra something to it. Rockets haven't been to the finals. Especially because of the Nick fans that just said, we don't care about San Antonio prices. Rockets haven't been the final since 95. And I'm going to tell you, the 2018 crowds are still late arriving. Move on. Okay.

I'm sorry. We can move on. We'll get in more in depth on this in the next segment, but it is big news. Brendan Soresby granted injunction versus the NCAA. As of this moment, he is going to be eligible to play for the Red Raiders in 2026 after a Texas judge granted the preliminary injunction today. Judge Ken Curry ruling that Sorsby's attorneys demonstrated that he will suffer, quote,

probable imminent and irreparable injury if he's unable to play for the Red Raiders in 2026 and enjoined the NCAA NCAA from prohibiting Sorsby from practicing or playing this fall. We will have a comment from athletic director Kirby Holcutt coming up in a few minutes, which will not surprise you what he says. The NCAA saying, quote, the NCAA strongly disagrees with the court's ruling in Sorosby's case and is deeply concerned about the damaging, far-reaching, and broadly destabilizing ramifications of this outcome. Meaning, again, anybody that has any gambling problems and the NCAA goes and says you're not playing, they can say, I looked at Sorosby versus Tex-NCWA. I'm going to claim mental illness and they'll be able to get away with it. Yeah. Michael McCann, who's written multiple books on sports law. He's a legal expert for Sportico.

He says also, though, that this is only in this county. This ruling only governs one county. So it's not like a nationwide thing or anything like that. So anybody else wants to challenge, they're going to have to challenge in whichever county there. But don't you go to the previous cases and say in the case there's sort of legal precedence here for sure. But it does not require judges in other counties. counties, let alone other states, to rule similarly, similarly in similar cases. I would have probably gone over the different word.

Yeah, I mean, that's what he said. Yeah, that's unfortunate. But there you go. All right, Matt, elsewhere in the news at noon. The World Cup's starting? That's Thursday. Jacoby Brissette to report to Carr's minicamp. Nope, don't care.

On that, by the way, movie review very quickly. The New York Police Department had to scrap their watch party because President Donald Trump wants to be at the game. Yes, he's going to be sitting in a sweep, by the way. We found out late word on that. So you're not being courtside.

I don't want to pay those prices. I think it's a safety issue, I imagine. That's probably true. He's had a couple of run-ins. Yeah. Yikes. Political violence, not advocated by the Matt Thomas show

with Ross. No, no, no, no. And I heart media. Everything is, everybody's making a big deal about him showing up. I'm like, presidents go to these things. I mean, it just is what it is.

And we'll get some more updates on this later, but Alex Bregman, 0 for 5, and making the final out against the San Francisco Giants on Sunday night saying, quote, I've been terrible. The Chicago Cubs. I can answer the question during missing here. Are we missing him?

Probably not. Not so much. Not even Boston's missing him either. You think about it. He was great for Boston, though. But not right now. He's got to get the knob ahead of the bat, or whatever the hell he was talking about

the hitting coach is fixed with him. No, that makes sense. Not ahead of the ball or whatever the hell. What was he? I don't remember. Because everybody's like, look at this article. I'm Alex Bregman. The hitting coaches.

He's figured it out. Has he? Not so much in Chicago. Again, I think he leads baseball and men left on base. Not a stat you want to be in the leader category. I don't think it's great. Okay. All right.

So, what does this do in your mind, Houston, Texas, about college athletics when a judge from Taryn County, which is Fort Worth, goes to Lubbock to hear the case and says, this is a case of mental illness and that the penalty does not fit the quote-unquote crime, he will miss two games. Brandon Sorosby will be able to be the quarterback at Texas Tech, despite thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in bets, which is number one, no if-and-and-and-and-y-and-yxas.

or but it's illegal by anybody that competes in an NCAA at event. I think the precedent is set and we're going to be in for a lot of this. You know we ought to start doing, Rossi? Let's just scrap the whole amateurism. Let's just call it something else. It should have been blown up when all the big TV money came in like the 80s. Because the NCAA can't win in a courtroom to save their life. That's because they're wrong.

In this case, they're not wrong, but they still don't win. In this case, it feels like legalese by the letter of the law. It felt like the Sorosby attorney group. is going to be able to say, guess what we did? The Campbell attorney group, you mean? Oh, yeah. So I'm going to read you what Kirby Holka, the athletic director of Texas Tech said.

You want to guess of what he said? Don't even guess. What you're guessing is 100% right. 1220 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt. It is Ross. We thank you for listening. If you'd like to be a participant of this radio show, you can do it in multiple ways. The easiest ways to talk to us. 713-212-5-790.

713-212-1-2-5-7-90. So a shocking turn of events, literally as the show began today, Brendan Sorsby is now going to be able to be the quarterback at Texas Tech. You'll have to sit out two games and then be available for when the Cougars open up with their big 12 season, as well Texas Tech in Lubbock,

nationally TV, Friday night game, on Fox, on 950 KPRC. And the question is, what did the attorneys do? We actually know what they did. how are they able to convince the mental health aspect of this number one cannot break? There is no gray area about the fact that if you are an NCAA athlete, you cannot gamble under any circumstance on sports.

Yeah, I'm all for the NCAA taking L's in court, and they've been taking a lot of them as of late. But to say Judge Ken Curry that, quote, he will suffer a probable, imminent and irreparable injury if he's unable to play, I guess they're talking about obviously financial injury, but he broke the rules. You cannot bet college football. And I understand the addiction. I understand the mental health. I understand he's betting on Sri Lankan cricket

and whatever the hell else he's all betting on. But this just cannot happen. This is a golden rule. This is something that the crux of every sport, no matter where it is and really at any level, it's the integrity of the game. and the integrity of the game is compromised, even if you're betting for your own team,

which he didn't do it all the time. And if you're not betting for your own team, even if you recuse yourself from betting at all, that means you think the other team. That's right, has a chance. That was Pete Rose's problem. He would bet on Reds games, and then he would take a day off,

meaning, well, maybe he doesn't like his team's chances. Absolutely. So it just feels like it should be very black and white that he violated the rules. Now, you want to argue, should it be a year suspension, should it be he's banned for life, He has an addiction and stuff like that.

I mean, we can argue the ins and outs of that, but only a two-game suspension seems extremely light. And I wonder where the NCAA goes from here. The NCAA is going to run out of time here. The season is coming up in a couple of months. Yeah, we don't know how long temporary injunction, what exactly that means. And again, I think it's about precedent. If you're any other athlete that has struggled through gambling problems

because you've been betting on your team or point shaving or anything along the lines of financial gain through betting, through outcomes, through performance. You've got this in your back pocket now. By the way, Texas Tech's athletic director Kirby Holkett said the following. As we have said before, we do not believe that the circumstances of Brendan's case warranted permanent ineligibility. Well, of course you didn't. He's good, too. Yeah.

I didn't need to have that in there. As he returns to our football program, we remain committed to supporting Brendan's recovery and ensuring his compliance with the court's order. A comprehensive support structure, including clinical care, monitoring, and compliance checks will remain fully in place for the duration of Brendan's time as a student of Texas Tech, i.e. 12 football games. I didn't put that in there either. I believe in second chances. I believe young men make mistakes. But I also believe that this is something and a rule that has been communicated. that you just do not break. With deep levels.

We're talking about three different campuses, thousands of bets, getting your buddies involved. Mental, and I can't speak to this because I don't have this addiction. But my assumption is if you have a gambling habit, you probably want to keep it to yourself. You try to keep it sorted to your, I mean, I don't think you want to get other people involved. Depends.

I mean, yeah, obviously he has a problem to have gone this far. But that doesn't mean you broke the rules. If I have an alcohol addiction and I get behind the wheel of a car, I'm still breaking the rules. I can't just tell the officer, hey, man, I got an addiction. And the judge isn't going to throw up my case because of that. My mental state's not great, so I decided to have a couple of gin and tonics to get behind the wheel. Doesn't work. It doesn't work like that.

Nothing dangerous ever happened to him. Right. And again, they are doing everything and putting him his, he can't access gambling apps. He can't. I mean, and look, everybody's going to have it. We have one of our great sponsors is Kaushi, and they're involved in this kind of thing, too. And if you responsibly do it, we're all for you doing it. Brandon's not responsible enough to do this.

And by the evidence, by what the NCAA thought was a slam dunk and the original ruling was, yeah, you can't come back from this. If the NCAA and Jonathan, you brought this multiple times, any student athlete, my daughter is going to orientation this week. she's meeting with her coaches. I'm going to assume that there's going to be a conversation about what she can and cannot do. You're a real degenerate betting on Rhode Island volleyball. Yeah, I would think so. Yeah, I would. Give me the inside info, Matt.

Mr. Sorsby is very, very lucky that he is able to be able to do this. The reality is he's in a position position that I just can't imagine many other athletes will be allowed to do. Yeah, I don't know where this. Apparently this is only legal in one county. This is only enforceable, I should say, but it doesn't matter. The president has said. Other judges don't have to follow this ruling

if they have different opinions. Then we're going to confuse the world? I don't know what's happening. I mean, you know, that's how it is. State, local, federal governments. This is not a federal court, so it's not a federal ruling. NCAA is going to appeal, though. So let's put this in perspective here.

98% of. college fans, athletes, media, administrators are looking at this and going, what the hell just happened today in Lubbock? How would you have felt, though, if you were on the Texas tech side? And you said, we're going to put together this plan where he's not going to look on his phone, he's going to see his counseling, we're going to have people around him, we're going to be back checking him and making sure where he is and what he's doing. We're doing the right thing.

This kid gets a second chance. Have we really split our opinions based off of what helps us directly? I would probably think that it was wrong, but I mean, you don't make... What if it's the University of Houston Athlete? How would I felt today? I think you would feel a little dirty, but you're going to root for them on Saturday. And that game starts, you're not going to care. Isn't that what college football is, feeling dirty a little bit, and then rooting for them on Saturday? Of course.

We talk about NIL. We talk about these injunctions. We talk about the transfer portal. What happens come Saturday? We flip the game on and we're cheering and we're wearing our gear and we're rooting for them. We are sick and tired of this money that is absolutely destroying this sport. Yet it's going to cost you at least $15,000 to get a seat in Kyle Field. Then you can buy the ticket.

The sport is absolutely broken. College football is broken. And then everybody watches, the ratings are up, the advertising dollars are up, and interest is up. But it is funny, though, today. Now, this is just fresh that happened three hours ago. But it is interesting that collectively the college football landscape is like, what the hell just happened here? Unless you've got your guns up

as you're saying it, I don't know who else is on the side of this is okay. But it would be interesting. We'd all be hypocritical to it. If it was our quarterback at our school, and we said, you know what? If Brandon Sorosby is playing for University of Houston, he's going to have to miss that first game

against Oregon State. He's going to have to miss that game against Southern. I think one year suspension and all the rest, all the rehab and all that other stuff feels about right to me just because... The judge says it's going to cost him

irreparable harm. What a huge word for this. Irreparable injury. Because yeah, he's going to miss out a bunch of money that he won't be able to recoup. Well, then, but whose fault is that? His. So we're basically telling the world

that you just don't have to pay a punishment for your crime. Yeah, can I show up late to work for two weeks straight and get fired and be like, hey, you guys are causing me irreparable injury? Or maybe they're saying it's not irreparable because I can find a comparable job. I got one for you.

Okay, here we go. I hate to drive here. Okay. Oh, gosh. I'm going to slow down my speeds to have a more joyful ride. We'll leave earlier. But I may, I get here until 1030. That's fine.

No, I can handle the first couple of six. You want the first hour? Yeah, that's fine. But what if I start showing up later than that? Well, then we're going to call the bosses. And check your blood alcohol content. But it's mental health. Oh, okay.

It is your mental health issues. Let me taste it. Well, if the stroke wasn't new and my mental health is much better. Yeah, we hear mental health issues, which are varied and numerous. That's true. All right, Texas Tech fan, y'all are damn. I'm just saying, you're just damn lucky. Oh, you know how tech.

I got proof of how Tech fan feels. 71321, 2,1,000, 790. I want to hear from people that are pissed off about this, but yet, if it was their team and their quarterback, how would they feel about it? I guarantee you Lubbock Sports Radio on Red Raider Talk? They're elated. Yeah. Can we pipe into Red Raider Talk? There is not a Red Raider fan or media member up in Lubbock that are going,

I don't like this. This is a bad precedent being set. Who can we call it the most techist tech Red Raider? I don't want to call my son because he's, he'll have one-ups swearing in the ear. I don't know. Who else is a Red Raiders through? Who's a Red Raider? I don't think so.

They're all up in Lubbock. Like if it's happened to Texas, we call Craig Way. And Craig would be like, you know, he was good when he was in elementary school at Wycoshka Elementary. He was awesome in Johnson Jr. High. He gave us a complete run down. I've got one of his finger paintings in my house. I mean, again, I'll be brutally honest

with you. My guess is, if he was at Houston and I said that the University of Houston self-imposed a two-game penalty, I'd be like, you know what? Time served. That's the hypocrisy of it all, and we're all part of it. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-7-90. This is the Matt

Thomas show with Ross. We take this program until 2 o'clock. Today, at 130, we have missing you. At 250, we have, believe it or not, all things about how are ticket sales going for a variety of sports events in our society today. 713-212-7-90. Do you folks as college fans even have an opinion about this? Or is this just one more case of whomever goes against the NCAA?

You ain't none to worry about. You're going to beat them. 7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, it's 1235 on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back. Well, you didn't leave this. Hope you didn't. If you're just joining us where the hell have you been, be damn glad to have you.

Ross is back after a restful time away in California. Mountain lions didn't get you, thankfully. No mountain lions. No bears. Cheetahs? I saw a jackrabbit, some chipmunks, lizards, some flies, some flies, a couple mosquito bites. No snake excited that I saw. Did you partake in any of the L.A. cuisine at all?

Got Korean barbecue, of course. Ooh. I got the, honestly, the best wings I've had in my life. If I'm being real with you, the Cambodian wings, it's a place called Schlapp Mwan. Excuse me? Shlap Mwan. Really? Should it be gatekeeping this?

I'm just telling you. If you end up out there, the wings are incredible. Cambodian style. I don't know what that means. I don't know what those Cambodians are doing with those wings, but they're incredible. I didn't realize Cambodian had a style. Yeah, they do. They're great.

Good for them. So if you're ever out in that area. So somebody came up to you and said, would you like to try our, Camboni and Wings. You said, sure, why not? It came up to me. As a people I was hanging out with, they're in the know, very in the know. Place is incredible. Just letting you know. Do you see any celebrities? No. I tell you, I don't why I do this, but I saw a couple of people in the neighborhood that are YouTubers or something, but not.

I walk up and down the streets of Beverly Hills looking for celebrities. Okay. And I'm, you're not alone in that, I don't think. I run out, I'm not very successful. Uh-huh. I wonder if you live in L.A., what do you mean, if, because you have to, you obviously have to go to the grocery store, right? I mean, yeah. I mean, does George Clooney go to the grocery store? Yeah, George Clooney is at the Ralph's?

Good poll. I mean, if, I don't know, if Michael. Oh, I had an out burger, of course. If Michael Douglas wants a cheeseburger, he's, does he have somebody go get it for him every time? You want to live out and live your life, don't you? By the way, I have an in-and-out tip for people that complain about the fries. Light, well done. That's the way.

Is that like a quality start plus or some? I'm just telling, ask them for light well. Trust me. Right well done. Trust me. Light well done? Yes, trust me. That kind of defeats the purpose of the well done part.

I understand. Just realize you're eating potato flavored French fries. That's another thing. They like the fresh potato flavor. That's why they taste so potato-y. Okay. I don't hate on the fries like other people do. And maybe they make them better in California or something because they were delightful.

How many times do you have internet? Once? Just once. Okay. I got an in-and-out gift card from one of my children. Oh, really? That's awesome. Yeah.

I got one for you for years ago, and I just now finished using it all up. Yeah. By the way, I believe in In-N-Out is coming to Uble. I'm very happy about that. Really? Mm-hmm. Okay. And some rumors on the streets.

Light, well done. Just letting you all know. Thank you very much. That's the wave. All right. Let's see what else. Oh, by the way, speaking of the waves, people are sending me videos. Apparently, they were trying to do the wave at all these international friendlies.

They did it at the Argentina-Hunders game. How'd it go. At one point, they was going both ways. They were trying to get it done. And I think it went around a couple times once. One time they were trying to get it done and then there was almost a goal. You know, that's what happens, especially like an Astros game. Right.

If you hit a home run, that'll stop the wave. Thank God. Yeah, apparently, I think they were trying to do it in Chicago and it stopped pretty quick. It went around a couple times in Kyle Field. Yeah. Good experience, though? I did. Yeah.

Yeah, it was good. Yeah. I think it was, I was trying to compare it to DKR. I think it kind of feels the same in that it's an old building that has some updating and things like that. Yeah, I asked the boys, my sons went. There was no references to A&M at all during the whole thing. No. What else did they do?

Some people were doing there, like, there were some whooping at some point. Yeah. Which I didn't know this until, I think last year when there were some Aggies at DKR. They do like a little. they like tap the rails and then everybody whoops. They do like a and everybody whoops.

Hmm. The things you learn. Yeah. It was like one of their traditions. It is crazy that Kyle Field and I'm sure D.K.R. same way and we saw this in Lubbock earlier this year.

These mega college stadiums are now being used for big time concerts. Garth Brooks went to Baton Rouge. George Strait was at Kyle Field. He was at Kyle Field. He went to Lubbock earlier this year. I know he's on the schedule.

I don't know if he's come and gone on it. We had the Savannah bananas at Kyle Field. Announced attendance over 90,000, by the way, Argentina, Honduras. Ooh. It was a good, good atmosphere. Good crowd. In what ways? Argentina fans, Honduras fans, you know, good.

Yeah. There was one. No, I'm not going to say it. Go ahead and say it. No, I'm not going to judge you. You're going to call me rude and mean. I, yes, I would. There was this, there was this poor girl who was not very attractive.

And she kept having her friend find five different angles for her shots. And she kept looking at the camera and be like, no, no, no, no, no, do this angle. Do that. I was like, girl, I ain't the angle. I felt bad. That is not, that is, I felt bad. You know what that is. That's just the truthful.

I know, I felt bad. I was like, her poor friend is like, okay, we'll do angle number five. We'll blame the camera. I'm so glad you brought this up because when I go to NBA games. and the game is over. I don't do a whole long postgame show. I usually try to get downstairs of the arena floor and figure out what the bus

I'm going on so I get on the, you know, get going. This is when the ladies like to take their shots. Yes. Because if you are taking your shots during the game and you're trying to get your steps and you get a view of the court, people are going to get mad at you. The ushers are going to come over and tell you. Well, you have a little more freedom

when the game is out and people are going out. Yeah. Why can't today's women this out in one or two photos. What I'm saying? Like, it's cool. You want to take a selfie, but like you're doing a whole photo shoot and she had her next to her, then she had her stand back, then she had to go up a row. I'm like, let's go about 15 rows.

Maybe it'll be okay. That's how to be too. I felt bad for the friend. You know the friend inside is like, oh my God, it's not going to get better. Today's ladies, they take the photo. You have to do it from three or four different angles. Then they stop. They make you bring your phone, their phone back to you, or your,

You were phone back there. Oh, no, I didn't like this. And they got to do it all over again. It was like contract work. Man, this girl got in about an hour and a half. We ain't no damn old mills. Get the shot in and let's go. Seriously.

It's that serious, too. I felt bad for the girl and the friend. So both of them were minus five? Because first she had the phone, then she gave her the digital camera. It just wasn't working. You saw it in the work. And it didn't interfere with the game? No, it was, I think it was.

one time it was before the start of the game and then it was like the photo shoot two was at halftime it was not good I'd like to add more but I think you've done enough I mean I felt bad how bad you feel one to ten? Four now was their biggest issue just the physical

like the face? No, let's move on or was it big they were wearing clothes that were too small and they were big girls no comment I believe it's B John then don't you think isn't it the biggest problem with today's young ladies they're wearing clothes that are too small and they were too big you know my girl would love this conversation with you Matt

I'm not going to speak on it. Yeah. That's the number one problem. Yeah. It is. It just is. Yeah. I'm not trying to say I'm Antonio Banderas, but I also don't make anybody do a 30-minute's photo shoot for me.

Antonio Banderas. Yeah. Puss in Boots. Okay. I was going to go desperado. Yeah, move on. Let's take a break. All right, we're going back to the Astros.

Y'all out there today. Woo! Good to be back. Maybe that's part of the reason why we're having these issues. It is 1250 on Sports Talk 790 coming up at about 40 minutes. We've got missing you. We're going to find out what five former Astros are doing around baseball. And then coming up at 150, it is, believe it or not, all things about whether or not what it's going to cost you to go to a sporting event.

And it's going to be involving maybe NBA, Major League Baseball. WNBA? Texas Tech? They have no events. They're not the College World Series. Oh, okay. Texas Tech versus Houston? Brendan Sorsby's return?

Ooh, I wonder if the price it went up for that bad boy. That's actually not a terrible idea. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We go to Koso on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Koso, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, guys. How are y'all doing?

Good. Good to hear from you, Mr. Texas. good to have Mr. America back in the studios. We missed you guys together. You know what he is? He's Mr. West Coast. He's Mr. Big Bear. Big Bear is nice.

Oh, you went to Big Bear? Yes. Oh, isn't it beautiful? I love it. It's great out there, Koso, for sure. I love it. Quick question. I have two quick questions.

The first one is, I want to know what Ross's guide to the 2026 World Cup is. For someone who doesn't know Jack about soccer or football, who as someone that's just witnessing it in his hometown, his home city, who should we be looking, you know, to watch, you know, talk about here in the city, upsets, what do you think is going to go? What way do you think is to happen?

Second question is, I know you're out of town. What do you think about the Rockets and new uniforms? I talked to Matt about it last week. So I just want to get y'all's thoughts on that. Thanks, man. Have a great day. Thanks, Kiso. All right, you have your favorites in the World Cup.

I mean, Spain and France. Matt, of course, those are the big dogs. England, I feel like it has a pretty good squad. If you're looking for a dark horse, I think Norway has a lot of good talent and, of course, led by Erling Holland. So there's somebody who would keep an eye on. USA hopefully gets out of their group and then maybe something good can happen in the knockout rounds.

It's definitely a winnable group for them. So USA, number one. And then after that, I think I'm going to go with France to win it all. But as far as, I'm not really a big believer in Portugal, but England would be someone to keep an eye on too. Argentina. And then if we're looking going to Dark Horse, maybe somebody like the Netherlands or even Norway.

Remember, Kalshi, take his sage advice. Yeah. On the world stage. 2.5% trading Norway is at the world's biggest soccer tournament. Use it Code 790 for a little something, something. There you go. All right. Uniforms. What was the other? Okay. I'll give you

my thoughts and then I guess I'll be curious yours. My initial reaction was Blay, but then the more I look at it, like it has the like the tea that is more the style of the early 90s, right? The, the, uh, lower case. The font, yeah, yeah, yeah, like a lowcase tea that I see some of the nods to the older stuff. I like to catcher and mustard as a, just as a style.

I would have liked the old logo for sure, but I think it's a step in the right direction. And they did something similar to the Astros where they rebranded with a nod to the old, but still with kind of a new twist on it. Yeah. So overall, my initial reaction. was like four out of ten but I would say I'm like more of it like a seven out of ten now yeah to me I didn't dislike the ones they've been wearing they were just not a nondescript it was word Houston was a rock generic there was it was just the name yeah so you really had

nothing to really go oh my god these are way worse it is a closer brand of what it was in the 90s there were some things I knew about that I couldn't obviously because a am an employee and B they made me sound an NDA so I really couldn't say anything they weren't going to get rid of the R. The R test too positively. It may not internationally. It may not be here so much locally, but internationally the R does very, very well. Plus, I think the family likes it too, so that always plays a factor in it. My favorite uniform, and I always think going black uniforms are kind of de facto lazy.

I love the black rocket uniform. The white is fine because it's hard to screw up white. I love the ketchup and mustard O.D. yesterday you're with the red. The black ones to me with the pinstripes that are kind of subtle. those are my favorite and I don't even close I think I'll go with the ketchup and mustards as my favorite but I do like the black ones

and I have like the alternate blacks for the last couple of years because again everybody seems to have a black uniform because it's easier to put it black in there but yeah I like them all it's an improvement over the last go-around nothing will ever beat the 1994 uniforms the 80s uniforms those are just going to be the best

because they were overly simplified the team was playing its best basketball I mean, three finals appearances, two championships between 86 and 95. Can't beat those. The more I see them, the more I warm up to them. And also, I was happy to see, I mean, I guess they don't really have a choice. But Kevin Durant featured very prominently for those thinking he could possibly be on the move or anything like that. Alperin Shingu was putting a uniform.

Tari. That's true. I guess it could all be gone. I mean, Thompson's putting. Maybe I don't know if I read the context clues on those. Okay. I do like a subtle part I like is a dunkster. is on the pants.

Yes. I like the ketchup with mustard dunkstronaut too. Yeah. So, yeah. Nevertheless, a vast improvement.

Because again, one, like the ones that were bad, they were just, they lacked character. Would that be fair to say? I like, everything they've done

since I've been calling the games has gotten better. I was not a super big fan of the rocket uniform with the little rocket across it, like when James was first got here.

Those, to me, were just okay. I liked, I like these better. Yeah, yeah. I agree. Yeah, it's a much more of a...

With a nod to the past. Not to the past, it's for sure. All right. We've got another hour to show left to go. We're just flying by here. Let's go, baby. Let's go. We got...

I'm still waiting for a lawyer to call. I'm waiting for Texas Tech fan to call. Texas Tech fan. How are we feeling? You got to be feeling great. I figure. But are you feeling guilty about it? That's actually a better way of phrasing it.

How guilty are you? If you're a Texas Tech fan and you feel like you're a dirty whore, 713-212-5-790 because I'm going to tell you something, Texas Tech. If this was involving, who's Texas? If this was Arch Manning situation, you'll be calling us in a minute. You know what that's part of it is? I just figured it out.

The reason why there isn't a lot of passion is because this is terrible for me to say, maybe there's just a large amount of indifference of Texas Tech. Nothing strikes the nerve than when something crazy happens against A&M or Texas. Okay. But if it happens to Houston or Baylor or SMU or TCU or Texas Tech, there may be a collective from the state of,

okay, wait me up when you win something. I think I would feel dirty, but be cheering for them on Saturday. I, if Sorosby was a University of Houston quarterback and we were able to get him from not being able to play at all to a two-game suspension, call me a whore and a hypocrite and a hypocrite

and a fraud and a liar all fans are hypocrites though all right if you're a dirty horror text techs tech fan 713 212 570

719790 713 212 5779 This is the Matt Thomas show With Ross 102 on Sports Talk 790 is hour number four, three in the book, 713212-1-2-5-790. Please stay up with me late tonight.

I'll have the on-deck show at 7.30 this evening. Give me a nap in before. That's for damn sure. Yeah, you might have to. 838 first pitch, which means a game will end up on 1130, 11. That's all right. Erigate, he's going to mow him down. Are you sure?

You're like a nice little quick, tight two hours and eight minutes for you. I was going to say I'll take 216. Or I just jinxed it. We have one guy that calls a 10th day only when they win. And I forgot the guy's name. And he calls in and he yells and he screams and goes, man, that was so awesome. I can't believe this happened. And then he goes, let's go, Stroes.

And he just hangs up. Robert and Laporte. That's it. Yeah, he calls for losses. And he says, hey, guys, got to pick it up, get back tomorrow. That's funny. You didn't call me losses. He calls me.

Do you have a conversation? No, he just yells and then he hangs up. I appreciate his positivity. You know, he's there with us every night. And that's what I is. That's what I say. Okay. I've worked some lean postgame shows in my day.

So anybody wants to get in, especially if you want to be positive. So shout out to you, Robert Leport. Let's go Stroze. And just imagine if we did the show that way. Everybody, this, let's see, Jose Al-Tube did this grade, and you're on average at this grade, and let's go Astros, and then click the station ends. They just turn the mics off. What else would be said?

You know, I might do that tonight. Okay. You do a 45-second post-game show? No, about 12-14 in the morning. Man, y'all catch that game here again. Seven innings, yes. Let's see. Christian Havik.

Now, Christian Vasquez. Three hits. Home run. Yes. I probably won't be listening, man. Lamont Wade Jr. Three more hits. Astros wing.

Click. I like that. I like that. My sleep schedule is still a little off from vacation. So I think I'm hoping to make it to the end of the game. We'll see. A three o'clock nap will be your friend. Now, well, I got stuff to do.

We have spots over here. I got other things going on. Got a haircut appointment. I got stuff to do. I want to discuss this haircut with you. Okay. What do you got? A full shave?

I get a trim and then a beard trim and then a beard trim and then straight razor. Yeah. I get the full thing done. You need a face wash. Oh yeah. A little after shave on the back. Hot towel. Ooh, yeah.

That's good. I might fall asleep in the chair. I have. I go to three barbers. Okay. I rotate them. Interesting. One of them doesn't talk at all, which is the.

best. One talks a lot, which I still love him, but he just talks a lot and the other one's like in between. Okay. And I'll love him for all different reasons. So just sometimes you're more chattie at the table at the barbershop or not. Yeah. My guy is not super chatty, but sometimes like when he's got the straight razor out, I'm like, I'm going to be silent. You know what? Yeah. You go a straight razor. Do not say a word to me. Especially around my arteries. It's nice, though. I had one time I went to get a straight razor from a guy and he cut me up like a Christmas, like a Thanksgiving turkey. Oh, God. It was terrible. Oh, no. It was. It was terrible.

Was this at Visible Changes University? No, it was at the training? It was at a barbershop that I've come to find out. The guy had a lot of issues and unfortunately took his loan life, which is... Oh, my God. The show got dark immediately, and I apologize for that, but I just wanted... Let me give you something better. So how about them Astros?

Erigetti on the Hill tonight. I'm going back to the Astros. I got to get this off my chest. I want to hear more about Lamont Wade Jr. Who is Colin Price? I go back, I go out of vacation for one week and there's like three Astros I never heard of. Uh, 26. year old rookie triple career minor leaguer.

Gonna probably be here for a short period of time until you're near Deez comes back. By the way, they once again DFA'd. Saylor Salazar. I think he's been DFA. I think it should be like it should be called you been Salazar. He's going for the record. He's going for the record. I mean, he's been, the poor kid's been DFA like 25 times.

He's not a kid. Get my drift. I mean, he does make good sacrifice buntz. So when you get DFAed, three things happen. You either get outright released, you get traded, or you accept the demotion going back to the minor leagues. Don't you think Framber Valdez should buy him a car or something? For hitting him in the stomach?

Actually, it was the most positive news he ever got in his career. Yeah, this is the most sympathy. He probably owes Framber a car. So usually when you get DFAed, I would say the two most likely incomes of, well, the theme doesn't want me anymore. I'm going to go find somebody else. Yeah.

If anybody takes you on. on waivers, then you go, oh, this is meant to be. He continues to get clear on waivers, and no one wants it. I mean, he's on league minimum. If nobody's picking you up, nobody wants you at that point. That's exactly right. So electing free agency probably not great for him, and I imagine he likes it. He's probably got a place in Sugar Land.

He probably doesn't want to break his lease. You know, you know, he'd be tough to break that lease, Maddie. There's a Salazar gate when you enter Constellation Field. No, there's not. It's not, he's not up in the rafters. He doesn't have his number retired, like John Singleton. Of course says our Salazar. Christian Vasquez literally comes in the last week before the start of the season.

Terrible. Takes his spot and then plays significantly better. I mean, Salazar knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. He's just a cuspur. Yeah. By the way, we didn't have a talk about the Jake fan club.

What's wrong? He hit that home run that I predicted he would on gut feelings. How's the season going for him overall? What's he hitting? Like $2.20. his OPS is 610 Is that bad? 610 sucks

Yeah 610's terrible All right Well last year He hit above his head I told you guys Look I am all I am all for Playing your way

onto a roster defensively Especially at center field Okay There's just one more problem with that And it's been exposed Even in the last week But this is something you knew Before you left

Yeah We love Jake. We do. We really do. But that arm is just awful. He don't need an arm when you catch everything, baby. And look, power's supposed to come from the corner spots. It's not his fault. Nobody's hitting in the corners. When you use a stopwatch...

Stop. For hang time. It's not good. He's not going punter hang time. He's not getting Shane Leckler hang time on his throws, okay? And I love Jake. Yeah, we do. What's wrong? I'm not the vice president of the fan club. I'm the treasurer.

I'm secretary slash treasurer. All right. 610 sucks. And the arm's not sucks too. Arm strength percentile, 27th. Arm value zero. It's not negative. Oh, it can't be a negative?

Yeah. No, it cannot be. Yeah. All right. Replacement level arm. Woo! It's very generous. Range, 77th percentile.

Used to be higher. What's going to? on? Jake's slowing down? And in all seriousness, the point is this. Not that there's anybody fighting for the center field spot because look, the outfield has been a mess. I mean, Lamont Wade Jr. is an astro. That's just show you they've tried Tremel.

They've tried Lop. I mean, Lopofeito couldn't even get back to the major league roster. He said, eh, not so fast, my friend. Zach Cole is on that, Zach Cole expressway between 59 and into no 59 South, buddy. We, here's a, we got some things messed up this year. We were not

wrong about the outfield. We were scared we were scared about how they especially left field. We were worried about Zach Cole translating. We were worried about Cam Smith bouncing back. We were hopeful that both of them or one of them would hit and unfortunately neither.

Cam Smith's still great defensive value. The starting OPS of yesterday's game. Bryce Matthews started the game and left he moved to second base when Alan got hurt. Nick Allen Bryce Matthews

OPS is 570 Wow Your left fielder Your center fielder Jake Myers OPS is 610 Your right fielder

OPS is 658 You don't even have a 675 In your outfield You know what sounds like to me Ooh is there a punch lawn Or is this a reality No reality Go ahead

500ish team You have no Rock and sock power Out there You got signs. Look, when the Astros scored six and the eighth and beat the Pirates, Cam Smith had a huge part of that with the triple. But that's...

Yordon glands are fun. Yordon Grand Sams are fun, but he's a D.H. Yeah. He doesn't get outfield credit. You had three guys in your OPS under 675. When considered, 750 is a bad average. Well, Al-Tuvay is going to have to carry some more weight. Thankfully, he's back.

Esoc Paras had a good week. You like that trend to continue. Mm-hmm. And Jeremy Payne is going to be good. Except that... Oh, for four yesterday. Terrible air yesterday. Right through his legs.

That was disappointing. At least it didn't end up mattering. You said something about 90 seconds ago that I don't want you to repeat, so I'll do it. It feels 500. Yeah. Moments of awesomeness. I mean, being two out of three against Oakland is good, or whatever they're called Sacramento. But you lost two.

with three to Pittsburgh and you lost two or three to Milwaukee. Is that your new shirts? I'm feeling 500. No. Okay. That's not in production. Good. 713-212-5-7-90. We got missing you coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Our friend Doug in South Padre and talking about Jose Al-Tuve. How about that no rehab came back twice as fast as he thought it was going to? He's Wolverine. I'm healing fast. Look, your phones are in. You're doing great, Maddie. It's going to take a while. Now, some people are being rude on social media.

What I do now? Why does Matt have three barbers if he doesn't have hair? That's rude. I get shapes. That's not nice. I don't shave my own face anymore. It's my only diva thing I do. It's nice to get it done.

It is. Go ahead. I'm going to say really quickly, I have three amazing barbers. Yes. I consider them friends beyond being barbers. That's beautiful. I do not. I can shave in the shower.

my wife gets I don't want to put out too much of her business but she gets everything done from nails, hair, face I mean literally everything and it works. And it works. It's working well. Just saying it's saying. Okay. Okay. So she spends a certain

amount of money per week. I spend mine. The two barbers I go to in Kingwood and I'll give them a shout out. The Kingwood Barbershop and Kingwood Barbershop and Number three charge very, very, very fair prices. Okay. I mean, the lowest price is for a shave. If I get a shave down the street here off a Morrill Drive, it's double. Okay.

Even if I go to a like a Ruper Ruts, it's about $15 more. Wow. Okay, that sounds good. So I give them a good tip. Yes. They don't charge me a lot. Wonderful. And I get it done about every seven or eight days.

And you're building friendships. I don't care about that. Oh. Well, you just said it was your friend. But they're friends, but I'm not looking to build friendships. I'm not looking to, but it happens. And it's my one diva thing that I do. I don't spend a lot of money in clothes.

I would argue with one diva thing you do, but... Let me have my one minute. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm getting back in rhythm, Matt. I'm sorry. You are. You're prime form here.

So it's my diva thing to do. Yes. I don't buy expensive clothes. I don't buy expensive shoes. I only have a gambling addiction. I've been pretty much a simple. A little blackjack here and there. Yeah.

Who doesn't hurt anybody? So all I will say is, that's the reason I have it. Let you have that. I just do it. Let me have it. Let me have it. Yes. And it's again, it's not, I mean, let me say, if I lost this job or was like trying to really cut back, I would do my own shaving.

But when I shave my own head, I don't do a great job. I just miss a lot of spots. Luxury is nice, man. And it's my one luxurious thing I ought to do. It's literally just getting a shave. It's fine. Yeah, a lot of men do that. I don't think a lot of them.

I think I'm in the minority in this. Well, you had two out of three, I'm paid for my shave. A lot of men pay. You don't go every week, though. No. I go by every seven or eight days. I go over every two months or so. Yeah, I see.

But I bet if everybody had a comfortable barber, like you. Because he does better than, I mean, when I tried to do it at home and it's just looks like a butcher job. That's why I knew it. I mean, I know. I understand. Hey, I've been learning how to cut my own hair. It's a process, but once you get that. Oh, there you go.

Oh, that explains it. In the mirror? Yeah. Yeah. He's jealous. He's jealous. Got a key, babe. Chris Harlein, I'm just saying.

What a hairline? I haven't a hairlines that was a sophomore night school. They just call me five head. That's how big my forehead was. I'm sorry, Matt. I'm sorry, Matt. Doug in South Padre on 790. Hi, Doug.

What's going on? Hey, guys, great show, as always. Matt, I agree with you that Jose Altillian is the greatest astro of all time. So this is not a negative call about him. But, but I'm hoping that at the end of this year, he retires. And my reason being his career average right now is 302, if he plays a couple more years, he's hitting two. 50, 260, which right now would be great for the Astros, and he drops below a career 300 average.

He should be in the Hall of Fame. My fear is that the East and West Coast press haters that get the vote on this might take the excuse. Well, he's not above 300. He was a good player, but he should not be in the Hall of Fame, which he should be. I'm curious as to what your thoughts are. As always, great, you all hang up. Thank you. Thanks, Doug.

Doug, he's a first bout Hall of Famer. There's enough smart people. with you. That will not, there will be some that will be, I think, defectors and make

a quote-unquote make him wait. 75% should be good. It's not, it's not going to be a slime dunk, but I think it's going to be

just a pure guess on my part. He's going to be somewhere in the 78 to 80% range. I'm with you. No, you're not.

I'm scared of the old fogies. Well, but I know those old fogies. Try to keep everybody out. Those old fogies are the ones that also in the 1970s and 80s watched players pop greenies like they were chewing gum. King Griffey Jr. was not a unanimous Hall of Famer. Yeah, but that was 99%.

Marion Rivera was not. Mario and Rivera was the first one? I think he was the only unanimous. I'll have to look it up. But no, Ryan was not unanimous. George Brett was not unanimous. There's a lot of awesome. Yeah, still Rivera is the only one.

one, Ichiro Suzuki was not unanimous. Derek Jeter, not unanimous. King Griffey Jr., not unanimous. Dang. Yeah, there's going to be an A-hole in the group. Now, first, of course, he's not going to be unanimous, but I'm just saying, I'm worried about these if there's a group of enough old fogies

who wanted him to wait for a year. Remember how, was it Bill Belichick didn't, or he didn't get in immediately? That was recently. That was last fall. Well, Robert Crack. I can't remember, yeah. Whatever it was. I'm going to say the old fogey group is about 25% of the group that I'll say there's 100 guys 25 or old fogies okay that's then he needs exactly 75%

you can't have one other person fill out a ballot another way but I'm also newly finished I'm going to tell you of those 25 not all 25 are going to vote against him okay hopefully again I feel very this is but this is such a gut feeling we're at the we have to put this doc in deep in a new computer I'm saying it's not happening I'm saying you know, if we were trading on Kalshi, I'd be putting it at him at like... Use that code 790, by the way. I'd be putting him at like 95%.

Oh, I think it's lower than that. Really? Okay. I think it's 78 to 82. No, no, no, not where his vote ends up. His chances of getting in. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, yeah. I would say, yeah, I think he's in on the first ballot between 70 and 82%.

Okay. Yeah, I could see that. And it's gonna piss me off against if it's like 79. I'm like, what 21? What is it's like 74.5? Don't even. Bill, who is? Bishu had to wait, right, one year?

Remember? Bishu had to wait, yeah. Yeah. Bagwell had to wait. No. Okay. No. Okay.

We're smarter. We're smarter than this. We're smarter. I want you to be right. I want you to be right. I just have a little hesitation. I get it. Slight hesitation.

Larry, what do you got today? I tell you what, Matt. You guys got a great show. Thank you. But, you know, just Mike Burroughs, extravaganza is so far away from that it's unbelievable i mean he's he's had like 13 or 14 starts and his record is 3 and 8 and i mean he's a good betting practice pitcher

but major weight wise this guy the asteros need to find the way to put him on the 60 day iL Or else just DF. DFAM? DFAM. He's got like three or four more years of control. No, no, no, no, Gary. I mean, Larry, you can't, no, no, no. He's just, he is struggling mightily.

Maybe the advance hype was well overblown, which clearly is the case. But I would not give up on him at this point. There's just, there's too much promise there. You said he's got three or four more years of a contract? Yeah, under team control Basically he's a cheapie for the next three to four years Well wait, it's more than that actually He won't even be to hit arbitration till 29

He won't be a free agent until after 31 Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's here for the No, wait a minute Larry Relax Larry, Larry, come on Two years from now he could be a 17 game winner You'll feel terrible Yeah I didn't

I didn't mean to I didn't mean you chuckle, make you chuckle like that. I mean, yeah, he had a good start against the Rangers like three starts ago. A couple starts before that, he threw seven innings a shutout ball against the Reds. He can have some good starts. I'll say this. The long ball's been a problem. If you're going to judge him off of 13 games, I don't think he's a three-and-eight pitcher.

However, Ross, I don't believe he's going to be a guy that's going to be starting in a, would be a guy you'd go to in game one or two of a playoff series. He might just be a mid. he's leading the league and hits earned runs and homer is allowed yeah i'll stand by it yeah the book is not written on him the book to me is not written the first chapters kind of say he's probably a who would be a who's a fourth starter i mean is he louis is he louis gaccio i was actually the it's funny to say because he's the ace right now but i mean coming into the season we do think of like spencer arigetti as a fourth guy, but he's been much better than that.

Right, right. Way better. Like, who's a classic? Louis Garcia is fine? Wade Miley? No, I think the book is better on him than Miley. Oh, you know what? He's Wade Miller.

Wade Miller. There you go. Okay. Really good sometimes. Bud Norris. Bud Norris started an opening day one time in the lead years, lean years. He could, yeah, he could, but that's not a terrible. comp. It's terrible.

I mean, I don't know if... By the way, not being a closer. Wondi Rodriguez. Although Wondi got better. No, Wani's better. Okay. It's not good. Maybe we should end this segment.

Yeah, these comps are terrible on our part. I want you all to forget we've even heard this segment. Should I find them? I mean, in like 2018, 17, the four-starter was really good. It was like Charlie Morton. You can't use the Hayday. I know, I know. You can't use Forstarter Hayday.

Because it was a Furlander. Four-starter. Shane Reynolds, no, he's better than that. Shane Reynolds is better. That's Astros Hall of Fame or to you, pal? That's true. Tony Usabio still snub by the Hall of Fame. You still feel that snub.

Classic four-starter for the Astros. Wondi's too good. You know what, Bud Norris. Okay. We'll discuss over a break. Will he be better or worse than Bud Norris? Next, we're asking you the fans out there, are you missing them?

1.30 on 790. It's our weekly check of what's happening with former athletes, or I actually say current athletes that were former Houstonians. We'll do this during football season. Wonderful. When Joe Mixon ever shows up anywhere.

Oh, wow. A UFO? Bye, bang, bang. Stop. Oh, somebody said Jake Oterizzy for Mike Burroughs. Oh, Bianca says Lucas Herald. I don't know, man. Poor Jake Oterizzy.

He was so mad when he got here and they wouldn't let him see the third round of the lineup. Yeah, run of the lineup. That was such a mess. There was a lot of baggage that came with Jake O'Rourrizzie. All right. Here we go. Hay Save Sanchez of the Toronto Blue Jays. Oh, gosh.

I feel like I'm going to say yes. Seven for 22 last week. All right. It's pretty good. That's 300. Yeah. No home runs. One Ritty.

Okay. On the year, six home runs. 28 RBIs and an OPS of 772. Ross, I ask you, are you missing him? Now, how many games is he just platooning over there? No, he's got 60 plus games under his belt. Oh, my gosh. They're not just platooning him?

I know. They got hurt last week, too, when a fan threw a ball. out his body when he wasn't ready for it. Yeah, I'm missing them. All right. Damn. I was hoping those numbers are skewed. Fromber Valdez of Detroit Tigers pitched over the weekend. Got a win against Seattle. Hey, the Detroit Tigers beat Seattle. Thank you very much, Frumber. Appreciate you. Okay. Five innings. Okay. One run. Two walks. A collie start light. Five K's. Don't laugh. It's taken off.

I've got, I mean, people are tweeting me about it all the time. All the times are relative term. He picked up his first win since late April. He's now three and four with an area of 4.21, I ask you, are you missing him? Let's see. Framber Valdez or Mike Burroughs? We're missing you. Yeah, we're missing them. Okay, that's two for two. Kyle Tucker. Okay. Six for 26 last week. Uh-huh. That is, uh, what is that? Is that 300? No. No. It's, uh, 230. Yeah. Ooh. home run, four ribbyes. Okay.

For the season, he's got five home runs. He has been a L.A. Dodger playing every day for two and a half months, and he has five home runs. Okay. 30 ribbies. OPS of 716. I ask you, Ross, are you missing Kyle Tucker? Not at the price. Well, okay, you have Cam Smith, who's not doing much.

Nope. Yusuk Paredes is heating up. But I will say overall, like, on the field, would I like have Kyle Tucker out there? I will say yes. seven what 16 what's cam smith 650

I'm pulling up camsmith right now good job 658 yes I'm missing so we're three for three I'm missing you it's not good hold on your MF and hats here ladies and gentlemen Maricio du bonn

oh no is he still like seven for 22 god home runs in three straight games what How many homers does he have? Staying by.

Seven ribbies this week. Oh, my God. Six home runs this year. 36 RBIs. And an OPS of 731. He's got to be encroaching on a career high in home runs. Oh, no. He hit 10 and 23.

He hit seven all of last year. He's pacing for about 15. Oh, my God. He's not going to do that. Annie? Maricio Dubon, Ross. I ask you a very simple question. Yeah.

Missing him. We've got Nick Allen and he got her. You got taking out of the game yesterday. Just running to first. So four candidates for missing you and you're missing all four. It's great. Fifth, spectacular. Alex Bregman last week. Okay. 28 at bats. Okay. Three hits. One of them was a home run. Okay. Okay. All right. Two are better. Yeah. On the year, Bregman, who went 0 for five last night.

Five home runs. 19 RBIs, an OPS of 669. I ask you, are you missing Alex Bregman? Well, he's been a notorious low starter. It's June 8th. Sometimes he didn't wake up to like September. And he'd go on a megatair. But I would still say, no, we're not missing Alex Bregman.

Fine. Of the five. And I love you, Alex Bregman, like a younger brother. but for the Astros in 2006, we are not missing you. Maricio Dubon. Home run.

Home run. Home run. I'm missing them. Like we said earlier, you can't expect your team, in least the way the Jim Crane runs the economics of the franchise, just spend super big money on players. But you can't miss on the Mids. I would like to keep... I mean, well, Hesu Sanchez

we're kind of done with. Yeah, he... He had circuitous routes. Yeah, he went all the way to left field, touched the foul pole, and then ran back the right field of the hermitage. It was like he was out there with an eye patch. I can see it.

I can see it. It wasn't great. But Dubon, we did say it was hurting, and we knew it was a cost-cutting measure. Sanchez, we knew as well. We were happy to get low perfido, who's now in Sugarland. Doing quite well.

Yeah. He says, it's hanging out of the Stafford Fountains. All right. I must spend the next 90 seconds reviewing a movie that I saw this weekend. Okay. We've not talked about J-Lo very much on the show. Jennifer Lopez? Yes.

Her and Shakira, goats. At the halftime. J-Lo, I believe, is 56 years old. Oh, was Frumber rejected from a game? Somebody's saying? Yes, he was third a player again. I don't miss him, miss that. Can we go back to J-Lo for a minute?

Go ahead. 56 years old, correct? I think. Jonathan, she's stunning. She's got a good surgeon. She was in a bikini in this movie that I saw this weekend. Oh, really? I mean, there wasn't an ounce of body fat anywhere.

Okay. Well, I know there was a body fat somewhere. Oh, it was. I know exactly where to. Come on now. And it was there, and it was spectacular. Where it should be. Exactly where.

It was placed properly. The name of the movie was Office Romance. That sounds like without knowing anything. By the way, could you not have thought a more unoriginal name of a movie? That's what I'm saying. If you just said, Hey, Ross, have you heard of this new movie, Office Romance starring Jennifer Lopez? I'm going to hit you with that's probably about 28% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. That's my guess without knowing anything else.

It was a movie that was, it's a Netflix exclusive. You know, they're not going to the movie theaters anymore. They're going to the streaming. It's terrible. Somebody who loves to go to the theater. I'm very upset with this new wave. the wave. And her male co-par, whatever, co-star.

He's younger? Yeah, about 10 years younger. He was Roy Kent on, Oh, okay. On Ted Lasso. Mm-hmm. And it's a story about her running an airline and him being an attorney and they want to falling for each other.

And I don't need to give you the gist of it because you want to go see it. It was awful. Well, rotten tomatoes is actually 51%. Fresh. It had potty humor. And I was thinking, Jay Lowe's been done enough movies in her life. It was just lowbrow fare.

And you know me, they call me Mr. Lowbrow. I know. Absolutely. But even I thought it was too lowbrow. This has got to be rare. Audience and critics both give it 51% fresh. That's not good, isn't it? No, it's not good.

Now, it was something I watched yesterday because the Astros were getting their ass kick. I was like, okay, five nothing. We're done. This says Roger Eber gave it a half star, but he's dead. I think his movie service is still alive, obviously. I have never seen a full J-Len movie in my life. Made Manhattan? Nope. Oh, there was...

Salina? Money train? Nope. Money train. So my point is this, Roy Kent, whoever that dude's name is in real life. Okay. He's coming off a Ted Lasso. ridiculously pipe.

You would think he'd be a little more selective with his scripts. Brett Goldstein. Yeah. He's been in a few other things. Now maybe you get a chance. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, you get to snuggle up with J-Lo? You get to make out with J-Lo in multiple scenes?

Maybe that would be worth the price of admission. We're going to give you $20 million to make out with J-Lo. Okay, thank you. Where do I sign? I mean, I'm just, I don't know how much he's making it all, but I'm just guessing. So I'm just going to tell you the one part of it, one of the women in the movie. gives birth. Okay.

Now I'm scared. They show the baby's head coming out. This is where I was thinking you might go and I was hoping you wouldn't. Too bad. All right. Half star Roger Ebert, I'm sticking with that. It was awful. Edward James almost was in it too.

He's alive. Yes. You could have got me on that one. You're too late to save that for later on. I know he's alive. Was he sick or something? No. No, he didn't play a major role, but he was in a few scenes.

I thought he had to have been, like, sick recently. Because I remember his name being in the news for something. Okay. It was, I'm just going to say this again, if you love J-Lo and you love a flat body and large breast, you're going to love the movie. Oh, throat cancer in 2022. See, so you could have got me.

Because I knew his name was in news for something like that. Damn, and I burned an alive or dead. I know. Good for her. It sucks. I'm glad he's alive. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play

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